Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, we have to think about 30 years ago, you know, like, prior to -- prior to 1994, there wasn't too many jobs. Maybe there was a lot of jobs in Delta but in Tlicho region, we didn't have a lot of jobs until the mining company came. That's where -- right now we have a lot of our people that are employed, or since the mine opened, we have a lot of our people are working there. They have employed. And currently, there's a lot of young people working, and I know there's a lot of people that retire, and it really did help a lot of our members. Not just from my community, from my regions. It's also helped the Sahtu region. It also helped the South Slave regions and other parts of Canada as well too. You know, so. And I don't -- so with this bill, I think we're making the mining company to jump through all kinds of hoops just so that they can -- so we can get more information from them. I have to think about my people. I have to think about the struggles that we are still going through in my regions, that we need more jobs. Young people need more jobs. Young people are looking for jobs.
And a lot of them are going into trades, trades like welding. There's all kind of trades that the mining company supports. And so because of that I don't think I am going to -- I'm not going to support this bill that's coming -- that's ahead of us. So I have to think about my people. I have to think about the regions. It's not just our regions. There's other regions that rely on the mining companies, especially in this area, you know, so there's three mining companies. So with that in mind, I will not support this. Thank you.