Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to address my questions to the Minister responsible for Housing, since apparently, the income thresholds the fuel rebate is using come from Housing. I would like to speak specifically to the South Slave. Hay River has a threshold of $72,500 and every other community is lower than that, from $3,000 to $16,000 lower. The community I represent, for example, is $60,500. We are 240 kilometres down the road. Fuel is probably ten cents more a litre.
I would like to ask the Minister to explain to me the rationale for these numbers. There are significant discrepancies there, when the cost of living, the cost of just about everything for communities other than Hay River is equal to, if not greater than, Hay River. Thank you.