Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am not sure who my questions are for today but we have been talking a lot today about the provision of economic sources of fuel to people living in communities. We have a lot of people in the Northwest Territories who live in rural areas where they cannot even access basic services like power and telephone and these sorts of things. In the Yukon, they have a program called, "The Rural Electrification and Telecommunications Program". It is administered by the Department of Community and Transportation Services of the Yukon Government and the Yukon Development Corporation. It promotes the extension of this infrastructure and these services to people who live outside of municipalities and I certainly have people in my constituency that are in that category and I believe Mr. Erasmus probably does as well with people living along the Ingraham Trail, where for one person to access even these basis services, it is cost-prohibitive and not within the reach of most people. What they do in the Yukon, is that they make a loan available against the property which does not exceed 25 percent of the property's value and they allow these people to amortize the costs of getting these services over a period of time using the property as security.
Seeing as we do have many Northerners in the Western Territory living in rural areas, is this something that this government could consider? I have an instance in my riding right now where NorthwesTel has done away with the radio-telephone system and now for this constituent to get phone service brought in on a one-shot payment, which NorthwesTel would require, would cost $8,000. If they could be involved in a program such as they have in the Yukon, they could spread this over an amortized period and could afford the services. Is this something that this government has ever considered or would ever consider? Thank you.