Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We in the past have always said that we are committed to working with northerners for northern control of northern resources as well as northerners benefiting from the dollars that this government spends. So if there are northerners out there who can come forward and replace the purchasing that we are doing in southern Canada, I would be pleased to work with them to

facilitate that because the dollars that we are spending in the Northwest Territories should be spent in the north and we, as a government, are totally committed to that. Thank you.