Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman I hear where the Minister is coming from, but I think the point is that in this day and age and the year that we are in, communities want to take on more responsibility. They want to be independent. They do not want to continue to have to depend on other communities or other regional centres for resource people. They want to be able to have personnel and resource people in the communities to serve the communities so that they are accessible day in and day out. You do not have to wait until the schedule is up on the board before you can see a renewable resource officer or an economic development officer.

I think that as the Minister responsible for economic development and renewable resources, maybe you should consider the possibility of looking at amalgamating those two positions, or resources for those two positions, to have it filled by one individual who will carry out the responsibility as an economic development officer and a renewable resource officer. You have someone there who can work with the community in the summer regarding the fire retention program. During the winter season, they could work in the area of oil and gas or assist the communities developing economic development proposals or applications so that they have an individual so you are not funding two individuals, you are funding one individual with two responsibilities. In order to continue to have to have half positions or one-quarter of a position, I think it is time that we gave those communities resources the human resources to carry out these positions.

I think communities, especially the community of Tsiigehtchic, are frustrated that they are always put into the position of, because of the population and the size of the community, they will continue to have to depend on Inuvik or McPherson for their services.

I think in this case, there is money being given to the community, like you mentioned regarding the renewable resource officer position. In the summer months, you have people stationed there to work on the forestry stuff. I think that in the winter month, you mentioned that there is money there for the economic development position.

I would just like to ask the Minister, will you consider the possibility where we are already accessing or have service agreements with communities for these different positions, if we can amalgamate those positions to formulate one position so the community can have somebody stationed in the communities to carry out those responsibilities? That could be a way for you to assist the smaller communities to receive the services that they are asking for, but also at no extra cost to the government because we are already paying for those positions through contractual arrangements. Will the Minister consider looking at that as a possible option to assist small communities to have these positions located in the smaller communities?