Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I know where my community is coming from, I know where the regions are coming from. I also recognize where the government is coming from too. I would hope that somewhere in the next four years we will be able to say that we must reduce the public service and give all the responsibilities to the communities. I believe that is the only way we could see more production on the way you spend your money, as opposed to the way it is now. We do have a lot of program moneys, a lot of capital moneys that go in supporting the public service. The more positions or money you free up, the more programs you will be able to offer the communities. I believe as it devolves you just have a more healthy environment.

The North is the only place in Canada that that opportunity exists. Most of the southern institutions do not have that opportunity. The aboriginal people still deal directly with Ottawa. Over here we do have a large native population that has to depend a lot on the public service for their programs. But that does not mean that if tomorrow the public service dissolved that the aboriginal people are going to be left out in the cold. The federal government is still there to take those responsibilities back if they need to be addressed. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.