Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’ve been involved in government for a long time and this getting government jobs to the community, or decentralization, I think, is the word that is used more often. Over various Assemblies there have been a number of different initiatives and I think there’s been quite a few times where jobs have been moved out and decentralized where it makes sense and the costs are not unreasonable. Also, there’s been a decentralization committee that looked at all of the programs and services that the government provides and looked at finding ways to move jobs and programs around, and the process that I can think of, it failed because it was going to provide for winners and losers between communities. I think that it’s something that we should look at.
I think of Nunavut who went through a very large decentralization process and they had problems with hiring people. I think that there also will be problems with office space, housing. But I believe that we should have a committee that looks at it. I don’t think we have to focus solely on devolution of 350 jobs. I think that we can look at programs and services that make sense. We’ve done it. As a government, we’ve it in the past. I can think of some of the health divisions, forestry, for example, the move to Hay River, the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Office that was set up in Hay River. I think there are ways it can be done. Thank you, Mr. Chair.