Thank you, I appreciate that. And I think we're both -- me and the deputy minister are both speaking probably about the same pathfinder position in our concerns.
I'm glad to hear the Minister say that she is sitting down regularly with other department -- departments and talking about -- or her department is talking about collaborative or issues that span all departments as, you know, we've talked a lot about the silos. And I guess where I'm going with this, and I have concern, is that it is times to me where the economy or business is being slowed down by people in departments that are, you know, pushing personal agendas and, you know, not working really faster trying to facilitate things, and it really concerns me at times that that voice is shouting out the voice of the business community and the business sector and not always truthfully. So I just want to say that I strongly encourage that conversation to continue, and I don't think that our land should be sacrificed for parks and tied up in that manner. And I just want to say that now because I think there's a real battle that seems to be happening between the two departments. We can have protected areas without tieing up resource extraction or resource potentials, and it should be the Indigenous governments' voices that make that determination. Thank you. More of a comment.