Thank you, Madam Chair. My comments relate to a refocus of Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs. I'm not clear about just exactly what that means. I'm also unclear as to what downsizing of the Housing Corporation means. Does that means we'll do away with the Housing Corporation? I'm not clear on that point.
I have comments with regard to page 5, where there is reference to independent advisors on the economy. I'm surprised that we have reached that point already where we are now deciding that maybe we need advisors on how we can improve the economy when we haven't really had the opportunity to discuss it ourselves. I'm also concerned that we heard many comments from people that the government basically studies everything do death. They spend so much money studying it that there's no money left to do anything with it. With regard to that, I would be very concerned about how much these advisors are going to cost us and also whether or not we already have these people employed in the departments.
Furthermore, I would question why they aren't employed in the departments if they're that good. Why do we always have to hire consultants in order to accomplish anything? I think it's quite common now that there are more and more consultant firms being set up in the Territories and they're all being funded by the government. In other words, we talk about a lot of things, we study a lot of things, but we don't do anything. We're spending all our money importing consultants or assisting them to get established. I'm very concerned about that particular clause. Thank you, Madam Chair.