Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just have two comments that I want to make here, and the Minister has heard them already, but they bear repeating. One is my concern with the decentralization of the parks office to Hay River. Not so much that we are moving the positions but that we are uprooting families and forcing people who have lived here for a very long time to reconsider their life’s path, to reconsider whether they are going to take their spouse out of a job and move them with them, children in school. That whole ball of wax that I talked about the other day. I would just like to state again that I wish that in this particular case that the department could consider looking at when a decision is made to decentralize that the decision is made to look at positions which happen to be vacant or new positions as opposed to positons which are filled. If we really value our employees, I think we would give them a little bit more, we would think of them in a better light.
The other thing that I wanted to mention, and I mentioned this to the Minister yesterday, but I am very disappointed that the Minister is going to only have industry representatives on the Mining Industry Advisory Board. I again urge the Minister to think outside the box a little bit. The mining industry is extremely important, and I agree with the Minister that we have to make sure our mining industry, both exploration and development of mines, increases. It is a huge part of our economic development. But I think there is also a place on any advisory board for a differing point of view. Mines affect people, they affect communities and they create social problems, and I think it behooves us to have somebody, at least one person on this board, who can present a bit of a different point of view. We all want development but we don’t want development from only one point of view.