Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would just like to assure the Member that the spirit and intent of the Business Incentive Policy will be implemented, and the spirit and intent of the policy is to equalize things. To give northerners 15 percent so that they are equal in bidding against their southern counterparts, and the five percent local preference is to equalize for local communities, when it is implemented.

For example, there is a portion of the policy that says it has to follow the spirit and intent of the policy, that is to create jobs for northerners, and to equalize it. So, in some cases the five percent local preference is waved in order to follow the spirit and intent of the policy, and in those cases, for example, a bridge contract where the contract may be $1 million, and six or seven hundred thousand dollars of that contract, is steel that is manufactured in Edmonton, that portion will not get the five percent, for the simple reason all bidders have to bring it out of the same area. Thank you.