Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, going over the recommendations coming out of the BIP review, some areas met with favour, in other areas there were a lot of things that were left standing. One of the major concerns I had that was not addressed was the grandfather clause. I did not understand why, for example, we are grandfathering companies like the Royal Bank or the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, corporations, multinational corporations that make, as reported in the media, billions of dollars of profits. I

have major concerns with companies that are under the grandfather clause that get northern preference competing with local firms.

On northern local labour, one of the things when I was part of the group that toured the Maritimes last summer, was that in the Maritimes, for example, in Newfoundland what they do is backend the availability of incentives. Instead of giving discounts at the beginning of a project, at the end of the project, the different companies would for example, send in their T4 slips and say, yes, we hired 20 northerners or 20 Newfoundlanders in that case and that way you could go ahead and provide the incentive at the end of the project. It also takes away then, this government having to monitor different worksites and projects to make sure that indeed, companies are carrying out this incentive.

On the bed and breakfast establishments, I think we have hit on a good point there about having the classification for the tourist home with the bed and breakfast and having that defined under the Office of the Fire Marshal. On northern local labour, like I said earlier, I think we should be providing those on the backend and not on the front. On the reduced costs and bid adjustments, 10 percent northern, 10 percent local, we have again to look at maybe the sliding scale option based on what the percentage you are trying to do on a bid.