This is about as exhausting as the speech. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. One of the concerns that came up time, and time, and time again, is the turn around time of funding requests, that I talked about earlier. There has been enough said on that. The committee expressed concerns with respect to the amount of time it took to respond to applications for assistance, and the need to devolve more authority to the regional level, to improve the responsiveness.

Now, we do recognize that there are some moves in that area, and we do appreciate the fact that there will be authority at the Superintendent level for $50,000. However, there has to be a way to simplify the turn around time. There was example upon example of people waiting for 4 or 5 months for turnaround in loans, and of course, the deputy showed us where there were thirty days and fifteen, and we commend them for that. It seemed to us, particularly in the level II and III communities, that is where we have to find a way to improve the turn around time, so that we can meet the climatic conditions of business interests in the Northwest Territories.