Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will not argue the request that has been made to have the evaluation, I think that there is always a time needed to do the assessment. The only concern that I had, was the way the policy reads right now, there is no preference. I know that there is a priority for aboriginal people, I have no problem with that, and there is a suggestion that the women's issue is equal to that of a person who has come across the sea within the last 20 years.

For me, it does not make any sense. Maybe for someone who drafted that document, it makes sense. You are dealing with women who are talking about going beyond the positions of being a secretary, or at the lower parts of our public service, getting into management, and getting access to government jobs for the handicapped, making it more easily available to them. There is no advantage to a person, a non-aboriginal person, who has been born and raised in the north, compared to someone who has come over from Europe in the last twenty years.

I am not going to argue that the policy is there now. What I am saying to you is that, maybe, there has to be an assessment done if there is an intent to give advantage to people, then what is that advantage? If there is no advantage, then we should say it publicly. That, okay, anybody who has come over in the last 20 years has more rights in the north, or equal rights to those that have been born and raised here, and some who have been here for 40 years. There is no difference, that is all I am saying, and maybe, that has to be considered.

I am not going to argue about how things work, but I just wanted to make that point. Maybe there has to be a reassessment of that situation.