Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you Ms Thompson. Policies and procedures are going to be in place with respect to the way in which municipalities expend their funds, and in keeping with anything else that we do, if those policies and procedures are not adhered to, we would take an appropriate course of action. It could mean taking back that authority, I suppose, etc. It is still very early in the process, this evolutionary process. But the intent here is, as I know where the line of questioning is going, and I think it is a valid one. The intent here is, and the belief is, that if we transfer the money to the communities that the communities will take a closer look at ensuring that their local community investors and small businesses are, not protected, but are given equal opportunity. I think that is important, to say that.
We will be developing some guidelines that will ensure that happens and I want to ensure my colleague that his concern about the larger corporations coming in and grabbing the projects, I just do not think that it will happen. I think an example of how well it is done right now is in his own riding of Arviat, if you take a look at that project that we saw when we were in there that the last trip we made with that garage facility that has been done by your municipality and your local contractor and the twenty or thirty local guys, I would hope that would be an example and I am sure Ms. Thompson feels the same way, a very clear example of the success of community empowerment, we in fact, have built the facility which has been run by your municipality at a lower cost than what the government funded by a local contractor who is employing all kinds of local people.
That is a classic example and you are to be congratulated for that, of exactly what community empowerment is all about.
So, our intent is to take that approach, to ensure that some guidelines and procedures are in place, to ensure that kind of excellent performance that we say there can be adopted in other parts of the country. Thank you.