Mr. Speaker, obviously the minister does not know the difference between a subsidy and ownership, and he should learn it.
In the same speech the minister said that the Conservative government would want to do the same thing the Liberals wanted to do, give away the royalties that really belonged to the average people of the Northwest Territories.
The northern royalty rates are already so low they constitute a giveaway of the oil and gas.
Will the minister please explain how following the discredited Liberal plan to give away the royalties will benefit the working people of the north?