Mr. Speaker, the decentralization was brought about by the effects of budget cutbacks, and as everybody knows, the budget is before the standing committee on finance; and hopefully it will come to the House ,in September. But when we evaluated all the PY losses across the Territories, Yellowknife gained one position, and a lot of the other communities lost positions. That was not the intent of budget cutbacks, Mr. Speaker, and so we took into consideration what would happen with some decentralization to those communities that had been affected. Quite frankly, to Mr. Zoe's constituency, because of forced growth in his area, his constituency gained 13.8 positions, Mr. Speaker. Lac la Martre gained one; Rae-Edzo gained 11.3 positions; Rae Lakes gained half a position; Snare Lakes gained half a position, Mr. Speaker. So you can see that there was considerable forced growth in that particular area.
The Kitikmeot, I think, was the other part of the question, Mr. Speaker. The Kitikmeot stayed virtually the same. There was no great impact from the budgetary cutbacks. Besides, in the Kitikmeot, Mr. Speaker, we are very excited, as Madam Premier has said, about the mining potential there. I was recently in Coppermine, and the people there are saying that if local jobs accrue to them, local opportunities business-wise accrue to them, then they are favourable towards that mine. As Madam Premier has said, there are good assays; and we understand there is a lot of exploration in that area this year, and we believe in future years we will have to be investing in the Kitikmeot in that particular area of Mr. Bernhardt's infrastructure that will assist in the way of roads, or perhaps hydro companies, to begin mines there, employ local people and support local businesses. So we think that is going to assist that area, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.