Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am not sure that there is much left to be said, but one thing that I did want to touch on that maybe has not been touched on directly is the implementing the GNWT's Federal Engagement Strategy. I have been happy to hear comments in recent weeks and days, in fact, that have come from the Premier with regard to even reaching out now to our sister territories in developing and working toward a pan-territorial strategy toward sustainability and resource development.
I think it is high time that we make a concerted effort to really work closely with the federal government in building our identity as the North and having that identity built into the nation's vision somehow so that we are not in this constant state of flux that wherever, whatever, federal government of the day happens to be in power. It kind of seems to be having major impacts on the North and ultimately it has major impacts on who we are and how we define ourselves.
To that end, in order to have confidence to walk into Ottawa with our sister territories, I think it is important, as all the previous speakers have alluded to here, to make sure we have our own house in order, and that of course means settling our Indigenous rights and getting self-government under way so that we can get over this, I'll call it, fragmentation and build unity and go collectively as one unified territory.
Respectfully, you know, there are obviously five regions throughout the territory with a number of individual characteristics of each that have to be respected, but we have to start to build a vision of our own of this territory. We have to collaborate that with our sister territories and march that into Ottawa and start to build upon the vision for Canada and how Canada sees the North going forward.
So those are just some additional comments. Thank you, Mr. Chair.