Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Finance. I was wondering if he could give us the rationale behind his department's contemplating removing the payroll tax at this time. I know there is a lot of opposition to the payroll tax at the time it was implemented but we have put up with it for some time now to no great net benefit to our government coffers.

However, on the verge of such extensive mineral sector development when we will probably be seeing a lot of non-northerners, at least to some extent there will be non-northerners working in the Northwest Territories, the timing just seems a bit odd to me and I was wondering if he might give us his rationale for proposing such a change at this time. Thank you.