Mr. Speaker, I’m hopeful that we will be able to come up with a game plan for the Territories. Again, we’re working off the work of previous Assemblies with an agreement that was put on the table. We know what the federal government has sent back on revenue sharing and the cap. We stated that that’s not a level we are ready to sign off on. We continue to work with the regional leadership on how we can move this forward. In fact, we will be discussing the last correspondence I had with the Prime Minister, as well, and then, hopefully, see if we can move that along any further.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Final supplementary, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I certainly look forward to the discussions that the Premier will have with his colleagues in the aboriginal governments. Is the Premier also looking at how they assemble certain provincial leaders? I know they support us regarding certain initiatives up in the northern parts of the provinces that are in similar situations and have been left isolated. There are no roads going to some of the communities; there is a high cost of living in some of the provinces. Is there a game plan that maybe one day the partners in the Northwest Territories, along with partners in Canada, can go down to Ottawa? I

guess I’m looking for that date when we can say to the federal government that we mean business; no more handouts. We want to see a good deal for the North. I guess that’s what I’m looking for.

Mr. Speaker, we use every opportunity to build the support with provincial colleagues across the country. In fact, the northern Premiers have worked together already. I chair that for the remainder of this year — maybe not the remainder of this year, but for the one year term that we have the seat. We had a meeting this June with a number of initiatives put forward. We’ve used the Western Premiers’ Conference and the Council of the Federation to put forward our initiatives and continue building the support. So we will continue to use those avenues, continue to build their support. They have publicly and through press releases of these meetings supported our initiatives in moving forward with the federal government.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Item 8, written questions. Item 9, petitions. Item 10, reports of standing and special committees. Item 11, tabling of documents. Item 12, notices of motion. Item 13, notices of motion for first reading of bills. Item 14, motions. Item 15, first reading of bills. Item 16, second reading of bills. Madam Clerk, Orders of the Day.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Accordingly, this House stands adjourned until Thursday, October 23, 2008, at 1:30 p.m.

The House adjourned at 4:13 p.m.