Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Finance, who I would like to welcome back to the House. I know, Madam Speaker, that the Minister has been meeting with his federal, provincial and territorial counterparts this past week. We've read in the newspapers that there were proposals put forward, one of which would abolish the provincial sales tax and the GST to be replaced by a so-called "flat tax."

I would like to ask our Minister of Finance, since we don't have a sales tax in the Northwest Territories how would the Northwest Territories fit into this proposed new flat tax scheme? Thank you.