Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think we’ve lost the message in the sense of what it was all about. It was getting a discussion about what we could be in the Northwest Territories. Could we have a diversified economy? Could we have respect for our cultures across the Territories? Should we have the best education system across this country? Can we have a clean, affordable, abundant energy to help reduce the cost of living in the Territories? Things of that nature. Things that I think we can look at and say almost every government, whether a municipal government, to a certain degree, to the territorial governments,

whether it’s this government or past governments, have wrestled with these subject matters. Again, there was a press conference that was held from the group, those that could attend. BHP was there. There were a number of other businesspeople there and individuals who are part of the ones that could make it and spoke to the issue. We were involved in some of our own work so I wasn’t able to attend there.

The issue, though, is one of my involvement was there, as I heard them, to listen to what they were saying, well, as a GNWT we’ve done our work and this is where we focused our work in those areas, but that’s to the extent. They don’t have a mandate to go and send somebody else off to do any kind of work. It is the matter of having the discussion happening and I think this is where we plugged in, is where do we want to see this, or should we just let people continue to talk about. But I think it’s incumbent on us, as we look at our vision and goals, to see how we’re doing the work. I think, as I said earlier, we could almost take every one of our goals as the 16th Assembly, and line them up with

the discussion that happened there. I think we’re already showing that we are doing a lot of the work that was discussed. Thank you.