Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you, colleagues. We all know the North is in an economic boom. I have been told many times by this government that we cannot tell big corporations or industry where they are going to set up their business centres or offices. I cannot blame them for wanting to set up where the action is and where all the doors are that have to be knocked on.

Mr. Speaker, if this government is truly interested in stimulating local economic growth, and I suspect that we as a government are local across the Northwest Territories, we should look at other ways to spread the benefits around. Maybe, Mr. Speaker, we should look at what the Nunavut government is doing and move departments out of the capital to communities that have the capacity to take them. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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