Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, the parliamentary secretary did exactly what I asked him not to do, which was reannounce a lot of things that we were doing already. In fact, I mentioned them in my list, although I am glad he mentioned that he is working with the NWT on resource revenue-sharing because I know that is a high priority for the NWT.
However, on northern defence and sovereignty, I guess the jury will just have to stay out for awhile until we see these things in action because the equipment that they were talking about for the north has vanished. It is not in the budget. There are just some vague references.
A lot of the items relating to aboriginal housing, for instance, were in Bill C-48 which Parliament passed last June 23. I am delighted that the minister went to the three territories in the north, but once again the jury is still out. What are the results going to be of those meetings?
Although we did not get anything particularly new tonight, at least the parliamentary secretary says he is in strong support of the north and hopefully we will see progress in the future from at least that support.