Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman I just want to clarify I would like to see something in writing where in actuality the GTA or the General Taxation Area people are actually paying taxes. As a person who has lived in Clyde, Pond, Dorset, Broughton Island and Iqaluit, I have never paid taxes anywhere other than Iqaluit, which is a tax-based municipality. I would like to hear from someone else who is living in a town outside of a tax-based area that is actually paying taxes. I think the point is rather moot. But, again, I would request the Minister to try to find the additional $40,000 or $50,000. Maybe the Minister could look at the actual differential with his departmental officials, to find out exactly what the threshold amount would be, and to see what the cost to the government would be to try to help out our respected elders.

As Mr. Krutko has pointed out, we said we would never take the deficit strategy out on the backs of the elderly or the unemployed. I do not think we are trying to do that, but, I think that the point has to be made, as you made clear. Again, I would ask the Minister to re-examine his dollar values, and report back to the Legislative Assembly with these savings. I do know the Minister is compassionate, that he is staying awake at night worrying about the deficit situation that he talked about earlier. That he is trying to find the money from all the different sources, from the consolidated revenue fund that seems to have eaten my eight million dollar hospital money too.

So I would like to see the Minister re-think his position, and come back with a cost of living allowance amount that will allow the threshold to increase for places in communities that are outside, especially off the road. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.