In my years of following this saga, one thing I’ve grown to understand fully is that if you have rough diamonds, you have a captive audience. Seeing as our producing mines have committed 10 percent of their production to local cut and polish production, why don’t we create a Diamond Trading Company Northwest Territories and take control once and for all of our own destiny when it comes to the diamond industry?
Mr. Speaker, we can do so much more. I struggle to understand why we remain, as a government, so complacent, unwilling to unleash the great potential that we have. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.