Mr. Speaker, thank you for paying attention to such a far seat in the House and a far region of Canada.
I do not have a question. I thank the member for his thoughtful speech. However, I do have a comment. I want to outline the special case of the territories.
In the territories, we have very fragile economies, very small companies, and high costs of energy, of living, of expenses for the companies. They are not well able to compete with their big southern neighbours, so we have to work out these special agreements, internal trade agreements, with the provinces and territories. I think that is the only way we can accommodate that.
If we are going to make a reference to the Supreme Court that unilaterally opens things up, it would reduce the chance that our territories would negotiate something where they would actually fit in this Confederation and still be competitive.
I just want to make that case on behalf of our businesses in the north.