The Minister’s Mackenzie Valley Pipeline office mandate to work with the communities, I like to see them come into the Sahtu and say, okay, community of Tulita and Norman Wells, we need X amount of welders, pipefitters and et cetera, et cetera, when we know for sure the pipeline is coming down. Are we ready? Have we done the assessment? Because right now, like I said, we don’t know, and maybe that’s our strategy, is to continue saying we support the Mackenzie Gas Project. I don’t know. Someone’s got to tell the emperor he has no clothes. We can’t keep saying that.

For me, the big push right now is in the Sahtu where the oil and gas phase is happening. There’s interest there. Eleven parcels. That’s a record in the Northwest Territories for going up. That’s a record for the amount of money that’s going into… That should say something to this government. Hey, something’s going on here when Husky’s going to

spend over $370 million within five years, and Shell and all those other companies. That certainly should have said something to the government. We’ve got some big players coming in, big players.

I’m really looking forward for this department here to put some serious dollars, serious thought to the Norman Wells oil play…(inaudible)…Tulita, however that gets done. You got the smarts there with your staff there. We need the help or we can work it together. The permafrost position, I think, needs to be out of Yellowknife. I hope the Minister looks at these issues.

I want to ask the Minister if we would see something to support the Tulita district in the Sahtu. Thank you.