Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I would like to thank the Honourable Jim Antoine, Minister of Transportation, for setting aside time to meet with members of ABT to discuss concerns which I raised in the House last week.

I believe the meeting today was fairly successful and it allowed ABT to express their concerns and also started the important role of opening communication between the department and community. I would also like to say there is a need to review the existing set of policies and other policies in our system to make them more accommodating to true northern companies and give them an ability to benefit from contracts.

There is a need to ensure all contracts have some form of local training component. This could possibly be used as a benchmark within the business incentive policy and other policies. I believe, Mr. Speaker, that today is the start for this review and I would like to thank the Minister of Transportation in organizing the need and assisting myself in pursuing it. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.