Thank you. Mr. Chairman, it's regrettable that we have to revisit this whole thing here because I thought we'd made some progress in convincing the Minister and the department that what the corporation was engaged in last Christmas was a retail activity. I mean, even if they didn't attract any buyers, flyers went out to give discounted prices on arts and crafts to government staff. That is a retail sale, faxes going to every government office saying we're offering this special deal, buy them. The Minister had previously indicated that they were trying to provide bulk or volume sales to businesses or corporations who wanted to buy local arts or NWT community arts or crafts in a big volume so that they could get security of supply and buy them in the way that they wanted to. Well, okay, that's still a retail sale.

I think this corporation has to be clear about what they want to do and why they exist. I agree with the Minister that the role for the corporation to play is to be a bridge between local artisans and businesses, and the businesses in town will tell you that their problem is only not having enough art to sell. That corporation could do a lot more to facilitate and supply them with the stuff so they could sell them. So, I think, going by the Minister's answers, with all due respect, there's some confusion about exactly what this corporation is supposed to do. There seems to be a bit of a reluctance to reflect on what they are doing and how it is not in line with what the government should be doing and what the public funds should be going towards. I need to ask the Minister to clarify again exactly what is the mandate he has given to this corporation in terms of what they can and cannot do in retail selling. Thank you.