Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Business Program Review the honourable Member mentioned was a committee that was set up to review how the different agencies of this government, namely the Business Credit Corporation and the Northwest Territories Development Corporation, as well as Community Futures committees in the regions, how they are working. As a result of that, they have done their work and they have provided the people who are interested, the stakeholders, to look at what they have done and make comment to the department.
We are developing an action plan at this point in time. The review was to look at how we could get these agencies to work closer together and maybe form a single organization to provide the services they are currently doing. As you know, the Business Credit Corporation, like a bank, is a loan agency. The Northwest Territories Development Corporation is an organization that works and has joint ventures and provides those types of services to organizations. Community Futures also provides loans at the community level. The types of services the honourable Member has mentioned are more specific.
I just want to mention that we have started this Bankers Commission that my predecessor kicked off. The first meeting of this Bankers Commission took place last week, as representatives of banks and members of our communities, to start working on this.
If this is the kind of banking services the honourable Member is talking about to help the communities, the Bankers Commission has just started their work. They are telling each other what they are doing and seeing the scope of work required. Perhaps this is one of the areas they should look at, providing these kinds of services.
I am not too sure what the outcome of this meeting was. I have not been briefed on it, but in our preliminary meetings, those subjects, the actual cash flow and the actual type of support that people in the communities need in terms of banking was discussed. I am sure this is an area that we will also be focussing on. Thank you.