Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My next question deals with economic development and stimulating the local and regional economy of certain areas and certain regions who presently are in a down turn. I would like to ask the Premier in regard to economic development programs and services that presently do not or have not been exploited to its fullest, especially the Mackenzie Delta, where they have a lot of potential especially regarding the renewable resource sector, in regard to commercial fishing, hunting, the trapping industry and also looking at creating home businesses for home entrepreneurs to look at the possibility of developing small businesses around the renewable resource sector. There is that potential. There is also the potential for tourism, but at the present time we do not have the opportunity of a diamond mine, the oil and gas sector is down, yet our unemployment statistics continue to rise.
I think it is critical for this government to seriously look at finding long-term initiatives such as economic development especially in areas where there is potential in the area like the renewable resource sector, fishing, trapping, hunting, tourism. We have to structure our programs and services to assist, not assist in terms of a grant where you go out and buy a snowmobile or a motor, but develop it so it is a long-term investment to assist entrepreneurs not just to go out, set a net, come home with a bunch of fish, put it in your freezer and sell it to someone, but that you are able to market that industry so that individual knows at the end of the day that there are people out there who will buy his product, that you market the product and you also assist the individual to market his industry to eventually be independent. I think it is critical for this government, now that we no longer have to deal with the large deficit that we did have to deal with two years ago. I think it is now time that we turned the economic wagon that we are in around and start assisting the communities, the people in those communities where we have high unemployment statistics. So I feel it is critical to this government, and as Premier, that an effort be made to ensure people in the communities, people we represent, that we are going to assist the little entrepreneur out there and not just big business. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.