Thank you, Mr. Chair. The reason we are here having this discussion on the carbon pricing and our approach to carbon pricing which would help mitigate the impact on people in the Northwest Territories is because we have already asked the federal government to give us an exemption. Because we are here, you know what their answer was. They were bent on implementing carbon pricing; it does not matter which part of the country you lived in. So the initial discussion we had with the federal government is we just want to be exempt, and, of course, their answer was no. They said, "You guys go back; do some work to tell us what your approach might be," so we did that. We came back. We did a lot of work, and we talked to a lot of people.
Again, I cannot stress this any more importantly. Nobody is a fan of a tax. Nobody is a fan of a tax. I am not a fan of the tax, but these are the cards we have been dealt, and we are trying to put the best hand together to help mitigate the impact on the people of the Northwest Territories. Is it perfect? It could be worked on. We managed to get the aviation exemption because we spoke with the federal government and told them that is one of our high cost drivers; heating fuel, one of the biggest cost factors in the Northwest Territories, especially for those from outside of the capital who are having to deal with the high cost of heating fuel; and motor fuel, they were bound and determined they were going to keep motor fuel as part of it. So we went to them with our approach, and our approach, actually, there is a lot of work that went into it from a lot of people within the Northwest Territories. I understand, Mr. Speaker, that I need to speed up, but this is an important issue, and I want the people out there --