Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, my concern has to do with the Business Incentive Policy. The experience that we have seen in other areas, with the Housing Corporation and also in the business community, especially in the Inuvik region where we have had a lot of problems, especially with different contracts from the different types of negotiated contracts that were in place. The problems we see with having people going back after they have concluded a contract. It is signed off and then they are called back in by Public Works on work that was approved and they had to go back and redo it.
I feel that in some cases, the people who are interpreting the policy from the department have their version of exactly how the policy should be in place or the different directives. I, for one, have dealt with a lot of different companies because of what happened. There is a real bad taste in the mouth of contractors towards the department and vice versa. It does no good for the regions, communities or even the relationship between the business community and the government.
I know for a fact that the deputy minister went up to Inuvik last year. He met with the different people within the contracting community in regard to their concerns and also within the department. So I would like to ask the Minister, has anything changed in the last year in regard to how we deal with the contracting community, our relationship with the contractors, in the Inuvik region?