Well, I concur with my honourable colleague that in the current situation of those who are less well off, you would like to be able to provide the dollars in an ideal world that would make life a little better for them. We, Mr. Dent and myself, felt that this was a start not necessarily an end, that the department statistics that they are currently working on trying to determine costs in every community. Quite frankly, I would suggest to you that if there was the capability down the road, if our fiscal framework gets in order and if there is an ability to move monies into areas of those in most need, of which I have been an advocate since I started in this job -- and the budgets have reflected that if one carefully analyses not only where the cuts went, but where the spending has gone -- we will do that. It is unfortunate that in tough, difficult times you cannot necessarily answer all the fiscal requirements of your constituency. But I think this is a start. It is clearly a recognition by the government, by Mr. Dent's department, that something has to be done, as we indicated in the speech, nothing has been done since 1992.
I think it is also important to point out that the NWT child benefit will also assist the poor, in which my honourable colleague had a significant role. It was his comments many months ago that raised the concern about low income families and was this government prepared to be sensitive to some policy changes and we responded. I applaud him for his efforts in raising the profile of the NWT child benefit need. Between the Child Benefit Program we have put in place, the additional $2 million we added to the federal commitment, along with the million dollars in the food basket, I think in some small way this will assist those who are less fortunate in our constituencies and certainly my honourable colleague, Mr. Dent, has made it clear to me that he would be only too pleased to do more and he is studying that at this time. Thank you.