It seems to fall short. I'll read this following statement, Mr. Chair:
But the North needs new attention. New opportunities are emerging across the Arctic, and new challenges from other shores. Our Government will bring forward an integrated northern strategy focusing on strengthening Canada’s sovereignty, protecting our environmental heritage, promoting economic and social development, and improving and devolving governance, so that northerners have greater control over their destinies.
Those are the words from the Speech from the Throne on October 16, 2007. We seem to have fallen quite short. The aspirations, I think we'd all agree, are wonderful, but it's show me the beef here. They haven't delivered in this case. It's the northern strategy focusing on the north, bringing all people.... It doesn't say only parts of the north.
What have you done from the time that this was enunciated in terms of trying, either with your provincial government or with the federal government, to bridge this glaring gap?