Thank you, Madam Speaker. I have made this House aware already that we are doing a new business incentive policy with full consultation to the regional people and the business people. It's a few irresponsible contractors who are working in the Northwest Territories that give a bad name to a lot of other good contractors.

Even these so-called northern contractors who continually bring in Newfoundlanders and other people from southern Canada to do the work and call them northerners, we're going to have to make moves to stop them. I've already said that not only the health card that anybody and their dog can get after they've been here three months, but a driver's licence, a T-2222, an income tax form as well as a statutory declaration for their address has to be supplied to us. It's up to the contractor to confirm to us that their people are northern or local.

We also are going to build in amendments to the contracts where if you do not uphold to your northern and local content, you will lose your business incentive policy, but you may lose your contract. I can do those things now for next year so that we can come down with a heavy hammer and I can deal with these people. Thank you.

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