Mr. Speaker, I would have to agree with my friend that in most cases bottom up solutions are better. Being a member of a populace party, we certainly believe in populism and in grassroots democracy. I would like to think that there is hope for a resolution along those lines and maybe there will be. I am not saying there will not. Far be it for me to throw cold water on that idea. Obviously something has to be done.
What we have right now are two fundamentally competing interests. Human nature being what it is, it is going to be very difficult to reconcile those competing interests. Whether it can be done from the bottom up or not remains to be seen. Hopefully there is some goodwill on both sides. Hopefully there is an attempt being made as we speak to reconcile and to move forward in some spirit of cooperation.
We have seen other examples in other parts of Canada where we have competing interests and where there is a real economic value at stake, it is often difficult if not impossible to have that kind of reconciliation from the ground up. I am not saying it cannot happen. I am just saying that I am not holding my breath.