Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Business Incentive Policy, as the honourable Member has indicated, has been the policy of this government to help businesses maintain the threshold and maintain development in the North. I think we've achieved that. In our consultation with the public, there are a lot of people out there who have their own views on the Business Incentive Policy and as a government, we try to reflect those views in this particular area. As a department, the members of my Department of RWED have worked very hard and tried to look at this. This is not the first time that any government has looked at the Business Incentive Policy. There have been a number of attempts in the past. We are at the stage again of what are we going to do? As a department and as Minister, coming from a small community, I have seen how the Business Incentive Policy works and I would like to see these changes. I think these changes are good. I think they are needed and I think the public has told us that. However, I have to work with my colleagues on the other side and the direction to date is not to move forward at this point in time because of one area with regard to cost. We are saying that we could probably leave this for the time being and introduce a registry to gauge what the costs are to have this policy in place. So at this point in time, the decision is for us to not proceed, but to have a mechanism in place developed by RWED. I would like to respond like that. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Jim Antoine on Question 68-14(6): Revisions To The Business Incentive Policy
In the Legislative Assembly on February 21st, 2003. See this statement in context.
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Question 68-14(6): Revisions To The Business Incentive Policy
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 20th, 2003
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
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