Thank you, Madam Speaker. I did recently travel through Iqaluit on my way back from Ottawa, last week. I met with the superintendent of Economic Development, Ms. Katherine Trumper. Ms. Trumper has had a long history with the department. She is the superintendent there. I asked her how she felt the new programs and new authority were going, from a bureaucratic perspective. She indicated to me that she thought morale was at its highest at the regional level, that there was a significant increase in interest, certainly from Baffin Island, and that she felt that with the new financial authority she had been given allowed her the ability to move much more quickly in responding to the clients.
It appeared -- and it's early to tell because we've only put this thing in place in mid-December -- that client satisfaction which was a unique thing in Economic Development, appeared to be on the rise. Thank you.