"If we're going to build a viable economic territory, we're going to need some critical tools. One of those is resource revenue sharing and lasting benefits from the development of our non-renewable resources," he added.
Roland also wants infrastructure. Tops on his list is the completion of a permanent highway to the Arctic Ocean, something first promised by the federal government of Conservative prime minister John Diefenbaker 50 years ago.
In the past, Harper has expressed support for the "concept" of the highway.
A $700-million proposed plan to take the Mackenzie Valley Highway all the way to Tuktoyaktuk calls for about 1,000 kilometres of road construction across frozen tundra and along the Mackenzie River.
"You would make a solid connection sea-to-sea-to-sea and as well strengthen the economy of the region," Roland said.
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Stumble It!
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"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
-Max Planck
Highway all the way to Tuktoyaktuk calls for about 1,000 kilometres of road
construction across frozen tundra and along the Mackenzie River."
And in 10 years or maybe less frozen tundra will be what? How how much
will it cost to build a 1,000 kilometer bridge?
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"The most sustainable product is the one you never bought in the first place."
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