Mr. Speaker, I thank the member, a good friend and colleague, for that good question. He comes from a part of our province where there is a lot of natural resource. As one representing very well the constituents of that vast riding up through the Churchill and so on, the gentleman knows the issue well and the negative effect that it can have.
The member has rightly said that all members on a non-partisan basis are on side, except for a Liberal provincial leader who has actually gone off in a different and strange direction on this one. However, the member's point stands because that person is not an elected member and probably never will be with the kind of attitude he has particularly on this issue.
The member is quite correct that we need it for fairness in our province. We need it in particular for the north and his riding, which has more or less had the resources raped out of it all these years with no particular benefit to the aboriginal people that he represents very well in his vast constituency.