Thanks, Madam Chair. While we are on the subject of straight goods, I had suggested that I think the impediments to resource exploration and development is lack of certainty around land. That means completing the land rights agreements and implementing them to create greater certainty. That is not featured in here. I know we are going to get to a different priority that deals with that issue. What it comes down to is changing the kind of messaging that is coming out of our government and countering some of the messaging that is coming from particularly the mining industry, which is scaring away investment, quite frankly. I have told them this. The kind of messaging that they have been giving is that the North is too complicated; there are too many regulations; it takes too long. It is not true. We do things differently here because it has been developed and designed that way in recognition of Indigenous rights. The ability of local people to have more influence as they rightfully should.

The Minister of Finance, her final sentence in her budget address talks about showing the world that the Northwest Territories is a premier destination to live with a positive economic future, strong educational opportunities, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That is the kind of messaging that we need to be giving out. Sorry. I didn't mean to be put words in the Minister's mouth, but she said it earlier. It wasn't "blah, blah, blah," but that is the kind of messaging we need to be sending out to attract investment.

We have a very good integrated resource management system here. Unfortunately, it is not properly funded. The environmental audits are not followed up the way they can and should be to improve the system. People try to come in and cherry-pick things like what Mr. Harper did in trying to change the MVRMA that resulted in it going to court. If we want to attract investment, we have got to change the kind of messaging that comes out of here. Our government needs to show the kind of leadership on this, even if it means countering what the Chamber of Mines is saying. If you want to mine, come here. Go to the Ring of Fire. How many mines do they have? Zero, because there is zero certainty there. There are unresolved Indigenous rights. It is a complicated 10-year system. The government doesn't issue permits. It is a mess, Ring of Fire. You want to get a mine? Come here. The only thing that is stopping new mines is financing and commodity prices. It has got nothing to do with our regulatory system or environmental management system anymore. Thanks, Madam Chair.