Thank you to all of you for being here. It's great to see you.
I wanted to focus on one thing Mr. Cross said and drill down a bit. It was that maximizing the resource should be the goal. I'm thinking in terms of dollars into the economy, dollars to government that pay for important programs, and jobs, and human benefits. It's in that regard I wanted to refer to an article by Brian Lee Crowley and Ken Coates, and they've written a couple recently, on the benefits to aboriginals.
One of the things that Brian Lee Crowley said is that we're at a major moment of transition for aboriginal people and we're moving from the era of protest activism to the phase of action. He said that there's a new generation of aboriginals that wants to move forward and sees that dependence on Ottawa isn't a long-term solution and that they don't have many options in a lot of the remote communities they live in other than resource development. He also spoke about how there have to be real and tangible benefits to aboriginals.
I wondered if you could give us a picture of what impacts and benefits you might see of market diversification of energy to Canadian aboriginals.