Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I didn’t know that question period was going to be extended today, but I had so many questions after my question to the Minister of ITI after I sat down that I have to ask more questions. His answers actually gave me more questions. I am still shaking my head, because when you look at the royalties issue and the federal jurisdiction on oil, gas and minerals, if that was an argument not to help find power supplied to keep secondary processing over the rare earth minerals in the Northwest Territories, then we wouldn’t put any money into the pipeline, we wouldn’t put any money into the diamond mines. I mean, I don’t even know how much, if you had to add up how much money this government has spent to try and get benefits from the diamond mines, the efforts that they made, because it still benefits, it’s still employment, it’s still industry, economy. It’s still all those things in our communities. So that thing about federal jurisdiction and royalties is still stuck in my mind here.

This is not a good answer. We’ve got an opportunity here. Of course, we can’t compete with

what Saskatchewan might offer in terms of power, but if the processing is done in the Northwest Territories versus Saskatchewan, there’s the whole savings of hauling all that product, hauling all that ore, someplace else for processing. I mean, that has to come into the play of the discussions and the negotiations.

But, Mr. Speaker, this is a mine that has a potential life. I mean the diamond mines. I have no issues with this government supporting industry of any kind; the non-renewable resource sector, please don’t misunderstand. I have no issue with this government supporting industry of any kind, the non-renewable resource sector. Please don’t misunderstand; I have no problem with money being spent in it. But now here’s an opportunity for some of the communities that have been on the periphery of some of these big... The pipeline’s not going to flow through Hay River. The diamond mines are not going to be in Hay River and Fort Resolution. We need something; I’m sorry. Part of the country. I need to hurry up here. Given the projected life of the rare earth minerals, the opportunity there, I hope that the Government of the Northwest Territories can have a say in whether or not we can provide economic power to that processing plant. Would the Minister agree with me?