Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today's Yellowknifer puts our Finance Minister and a very famous Roman politician who lived 2,000 years ago in the same headline. About 2,000 years ago a Roman senator called Cicero said we have to lessen dependence on government, get people to work and get the economy moving. We can't have all these handouts, we have to create our own wealth. Mr. Pollard, I'm sure, should be very happy to see that comparison.

Since, in his budget address, he has pointed out that what we have to do is encourage our economy and in light of the letter I read this morning, Mr. Speaker, about mining companies giving up because this isn't seen as a good place to do business, what did this government do in this budget in order to make it more attractive for all the money in the south to come into the territories? Is there anything in this budget to make it attractive for those people to operate here?