Thank you. One of the areas that is going to be critical for us as a government is to maintain our population. Any decrease in population will result in a dramatic decrease in our funding. Loss of as little as 500 people in our population base would result in a reduction in actually millions of dollars in the money that we get from Ottawa. We have to take whatever measure we can to ensure that there is not a population decrease here in the Northwest Territories.

We have said that the tax window, if we can increase it from 20 or 30 percent to 50 percent, will result in an increase in dollars available to this government on an ongoing basis. We need to keep working on that. As a government, we are committed to try to do that in a concerted effort over the next few months. With the focus on devolution again, if the Premier would make a very strong effort to come to agreement with the federal government and the aboriginal groups up here on the basis to proceed on devolution. In any case, we will continue to also work with the federal government to transfer federal positions to the Northwest Territories that will in turn add to our economic base, our population base.

We need to continue working to promote oil and gas activities as I have said earlier and support mining activity, exploration. For every job we create it means there is less people depending on the social envelope that frees up dollars that are scarce right now within that envelope. Any one-time deals, I think, are easier to deal with though, in fact, then an ongoing increase based to the departments. Projects like the airport have been received favourably by our Ministers and the Dogrib people have been advised apparently that our Ministers, at least, individually, a number of them are definitely on side and will be positioning themselves to support that one-time capital requirement. Thank you.