Yes, Mr. Chairman. You're right, a lot of the issues Mr. Nitah is raising are issues around wage parity. We cannot guarantee that, if this is passed, it would somehow apply to all employers who take on responsibilities from the government. It may be that some employers will want to take on services that are currently provided by the government, but want to do it with their own employment regime. They don't want to pay their employees with the same system as the government and that's their choice. We can't, through this kind of legislation, force them to keep all their employees on the same wage system as we have here. So there is no 100 percent guarantee if an agency takes over a service provided by a government that they would have to do this. That's something that would have to be negotiated with them. They can choose to do that if they want to, or if they want to have their own system, then that's a choice that they have the right to make.
Mr. Chairman, I just want to say, as well, for further clarification, when I talked to Mr. Cauchon, he agrees to our legislation not just as it is here, but with the amendments that we have before us today. We had to talk about those, as well.
Mr. Chairman, I'm not disagreeing with the issue of wage parity at all. It's just that it is a separate issue. If our government wants to undertake that, then that's a big issue to take because we're again getting into discussing things that have traditionally been left to each employer. We should also point out that it would be very difficult to have legislation in the Northwest Territories that would guarantee that an employee driving a truck for Joe's Water Service would get the same wage as someone driving a truck for BHP. Employers can set their own levels of pay, depending on their own situations, their own compensation packages. I think that would be going quite far to say that we have to have equal pay right across the board for everybody in every situation. Thank you.