Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to thank the Member for that question. It's an area that has been a bit of an issue through a number of Assemblies from the day the payroll tax was put in place. Many northern businesses felt that it was an added cost to them. The government itself wanted to ensure that we tried to encourage employees who were working from other jurisdictions to live in the Northwest Territories so we could benefit in a number of ways by them taking up residence in the Northwest Territories, and also to encourage businesses to hire northern residents and put them into gainful employment.
There are things that we have done. It's admittedly in an area that has some issues. We have looked at a number of issues across the board around the payroll tax and how we're affected by harmonization of tax policies across the country, but it is an area that we see as one of the avenues to try to...If we can't have employees working at the mines living in the Northwest Territories, then we will keep this tax in place and look at enhancing it, possibly, as one of the ways to try to bring some money back to the North that we're not getting through royalties, for example, or other areas. There are a number of options, but in the area itself of payroll tax, it has its problems. It's something we need to continue to work out, but it is based on residency in the Northwest Territories. So if someone works for a mine or a company in the Northwest Territories and does take up residence in the Northwest Territories, they would qualify for that rebate, for the credit, depending on the income that they make. So if they've moved to the North and taken up residence here, that benefits us in a number of ways. One, it increases our grant from Canada because we have a higher population but, as well, most of the money would stay in the North. If the Member is referring to the fact that people are taking up an address but not really living at it, that's something we need to follow up on and get more detail on. If the Member has some specific information he'd like to meet with me on, I'll gladly meet with him. Thank you.