We certainly look forward to it. I again ask, we continue looking, studying, studying and studying, and fly to different locations, and look at this plant, but other than contributing dollars to further studies and further studies I ask the question when will this hydro project see construction phases. When? The community’s been waiting for 16 or 17 years. Now he’s telling me there’s going to be another $100,000 study and next year there’s going to be another one.

I’m getting a little bit frustrated on this side here. I’d like to see some construction. The high cost of living in the Sahtu, people in Deline have been waiting for this. I know the goodness in the Minister’s heart and staff is there, but we need to

see something other than putting another $100,000 to a study. I believe probably this is the most studied hydro initiative other than Lutselk'e or Whati or any other. You put $37 million in the Blue Fish hydro plant here. Why don’t you put some money in the Bear River? You put money elsewhere. You were going to throw a whole bunch of money to the Taltson and the mines. That didn’t follow through. Yet, we’re still waiting in Bear Lake.

The Bear Lake hydro power can power Tulita and Norman Wells. It can cut the costs down in Deline. If we don’t smarten up, the people in Deline just might go without us and we’d have nobody to blame but ourselves. I know they’re being patient and they’ve been working and you guys have been working hard.

Again, I want to ask the Minister, I appreciate the $100,000 plan for it but it does nothing but put papers there and studies. That doesn’t bring the power down in Deline or anywhere. All it tells you is what possibly could happen. I’d like to ask the Minister again, and I might not get an answer here, and that’s okay. I accept that. I accept it of this government here that they’re not going to do anything in terms of constructing the hydro in Bear River for the people. But I can see a lot of the projects going on in the Northwest Territories that had less than 16 years to wait.

I guess I’m venting a little bit and I appreciate them listening to my venting, but I would appreciate if the Minister can give me some time frames. I don’t know if I’m putting him on the spot or on this government, but I’d certainly like to see a hydro project up in Bear Lake or something to reduce their energy. If I look at that list I had last week and I can see that $16 million went right around the Sahtu. How many other communities had projects going in there to reduce their cost of living? We didn’t get very much in the Sahtu. That’s what I want to tell the Minister, and this is one project that they’ve been asking for.

Again, I ask the Minister. I’m frustrated. I’m venting, but I certainly want to see a project in the Bear River sometime. I hope it’s a little bit sooner than later. I want to ask the Minister again: When can we start seeing some construction other than more studies? Thank you.