Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Members. Just in closing, some of the oral history in the 1920s when the people, the Blondin family had the oil and they were burning it and it was flaring up. They knew it was something special but they didn’t know the value of this product called oil.

Today we’ve come a long way. We have the ability and adaptation to learn and move. It takes years to become a journeyman through training and apprenticeship, and that’s why we asked to start the training program, to start looking at things that take years. You want to be a worker on the pipeline or that production, they’re going to make sure you’re certified and possibly that you’re with a union company. We’re going to have to get ready for that. The days of picks and shovels are over for the Sahtu people. We want to ask this government, because of the enormous amount of record-breaking dollars set in the Sahtu ever, the government should really look at this as a special economic zone and say, yes, they have something here. There are hundreds of millions of dollars spent in the Sahtu region. We should take a look at it. That shale play is being compared to the Bakken field. There are billions of barrels of oil. The Bakken is estimated at 20 billion barrels. The Sahtu Canol

shale play resources, they’re saying, are even better than that. That needs to be proven. Those are just words we’re hearing from the area.

We have the duty as Members here to do the right thing. The right thing right now is to put pressure on our government so that they can put pressure on the federal government to say things are happening. As one of the Members said, that’s our duty. Because if this goes, we’re going to leave a significant mark on our land. On the land and water, the oil and animals, the production. If we’re really ready – and I’m glad the Minister said the possibility of a visit down to some of the areas where fracking is going on – we’re going to leave a mark on Canada in the Northwest Territories. We’re leaving a mark now. Companies in Hay River and Yellowknife are looking at the Sahtu. I know there’s companies south of this lake, like I said, Hay River, are doing business up in our area. That’s good. We take our money, we shop here in Yellowknife and we shop in Hay River. There are even companies up in Tuk and Inuvik coming into the Sahtu. There’s lots of work. That’s good for everybody. We want to see our people working. We also need to know that there is treasure in our culture and to look at those areas that are important to us. That’s what sustained us. It was before us, it’s going to be after us.

I just want to close with the oilfields from 1920-1921, what happened when Imperial Oil came in, later the federal government negotiated a treaty, to today. I’m just saying we’ve come a long way, baby, because today our people are taking charge of the land and the wealth and prosperity. We are not being fooled. Maybe we are, but we know now what development means and what it can bring to us. We have come a long way from the days when those treaties were signed to what we have today here in our land.

I want to ask if we could have a recorded vote. Thank you very much to the Members for allowing me to speak. Thank you for this motion this afternoon.