Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I also stand today to support the motion. Some of the reasons are not the same reasons as my colleagues, some are similar. In the year 2000-2001, I stood up in the House here and I made a statement saying that the BIP doesn't work, it is costing this government too much money. I mentioned that we can build five houses for the price of four. If we didn't use the BIP, we could have better housing programs out there, affordable housing, we can really call it affordable then instead of paying the high costs that there is right now.

We have been paying for supplies through the years because of the BIP for social programs. A good example is education, health, these are for supplies and services. Those are the areas that need to be looked at and this BIP, which were not looked at. We need to look at those areas. It was already brought up before the House, it's on paper, it was totally ignored and there are so many things that should have been done but were not done by the department. Just standing up here and have everybody repeating it is just not going to do it.

What I want to say is that I support the motion and that the department should be looking at everything over again, take another run at consultations with the business community and the people that are going to be affected, the people in the communities, the public that is out there that are going to be paying for the higher cost of living in the North. Mr. Speaker, I say I support the motion.