Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I have problems regarding projects or investments that we have made in communities. For example, the Fort McPherson Canvas Shop has been there since the late 1970's. It has been a problem with regard to marketing tents, tee-pees, canvas bags.
One thing I find awfully hard to accept is they are boycotted from selling their products at wholesale in the city of Yellowknife because of concerns from people that storefront operators come up here and sell stuff in their stores that were made in Taiwan or China, as artifacts made in the Northwest Territories which are replicas of aboriginal art, yet they are not aboriginal art.
We have a product which is made by aboriginal people, produced in the Northwest Territories by aboriginal people and yet there are these roadblocks we put in front of ourselves to promote our manufacturers and the business sector to market our products, in which we, as Northerners, are putting roadblocks in front of the people in the North who produce these products.
I would like to ask the Minister, why is it that as a government, we do not allow our products to be sold anywhere in the Northwest Territories?