Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, when this whole debate evolved a couple of years ago, of trying to move the existing positions in Ottawa to the Northwest Territories and that did not happen, the Minister of DIAND, Robert Nault, at that time made a commitment that if there were any new positions that were to be created, we would move them to the North.

In our preliminary discussion with him, we raised the fact of, can we start looking at some of the outlying communities, the regional centres, where the activities are, where we can put these positions? The indication there was that he would look favourably at that.

With news that these new positions are finally being created and they are going to be moving up to the North, I think it is timely for us to pursue this.

The second part of our initiatives is to try to see if some of these initiatives can go to the regional centres. I think that is what we have to do. Thank you.