Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Like many of us in here, I regret that we are even in this position right now and that we even have to give consideration to this kind of a tax on Northerners. I am very aware, every time I speak in this House, that folks from Ottawa are listening closely. Sometimes I am open to sending messages to them just as much as I am sending messages to colleagues here in our chamber.

It is troubling that here we are, at the eleventh hour, and it is still unclear, and that we have to undertake this debate as it relates to even the coming-into-force date. Everyone knows that I don't support these bills to begin with, and I won't be supporting them even though I sense that they are likely to pass, but if I can be seen even as making some legitimate attempt to even delay the coming into force, even if it is for four months leading into the winter, then I will certainly attempt to do that.

I am not convinced by today's letter from a staffer in Ottawa that that is the actually authority that is going to tell us that September 1^st is the coming-into-force date. I am now convinced that the Minister is now the authority, who has said that earlier today, has now said it is coming into force on September 1^st. Now what I am trying to do is convince my colleagues in this House to delay that by four months. I think that that is the attempt that I am trying to make here, and so I will be in support of the motion.