Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wanted to say I will be supporting this motion because I support the objective of encouraging home ownership among all northerners. In particular, because I think that goal is something the Standing Committee on Finance has noted before that the NWT property tax rebate was introduced to the territories as a method of increasing, enhancing or encouraging home ownership. This motion directs the government to reinstate the property tax rebate to the level it was previously.
I think it is very important that as Mr. Patterson said in his earlier remarks, there has to be improved incentives to home ownership. I think this is one of those things we need to see. There are other areas which need to be looked at in terms of incentives for people in the north, but this is a real and concrete one which people are used to and I think we were quite offended when it was previously removed from the government. I just wanted to add my support to the motion, Mr. Chairman.