Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I want to read something that a constituent sent to me yesterday, and I tabled it today, but I just want to read a portion of it, and I quote: "The bottom line is that the carbon tax is purely punitive for Northerners. There's no evidence that the carbon tax will drive down carbon emissions in the North nor that the minuscule reduction in carbon emissions will have any meaningful impact. If anything, the carbon tax will have the effect of driving industry, jobs, and population away from the Northwest Territories."
Madam Chair, you know, we've slowly killed off -- or we're slowly trying to kill off the oil and gas industry which has -- you know, which has provided some benefits to, you know, the people in the far North. And with carbon tax, we are slowly killing off, I think, you know, the Northwest Territories itself. And we have to do something. We have to make the federal government realize that, yes, we are different. We're living in a -- you know, in an area that's remote. It's costly to live here. We choose to live here mind you. So I think it's very important that that message gets conveyed to the federal government and that they actually look at -- they look at ways to, you know, offset those costs. I don't think they're going to go away. And so I -- you know, with this motion there, I'm glad to see it in front of us and I support it. But at the end of the day, I think it's a bigger picture and we have to do something and, you know, for the NWT I guess, looking after and keeping control of the system I have no problem with that, but at the end of the day, it's -- you know, it's about the people in the North. It's about the cost of living. And it's slowly slowly killing -- you know, killing the people off, you know, by, you know, just keeping -- piling, you know, costs on top of costs. And we can't -- we got to stop somewhere. And this one here is probably a good place to actually take a stand and let the feds know that, you know, we don't want to -- you know, we don't want to take any more. Thank you.