Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the Member has highlighted a number of areas that are critical in the sense of how we would step in to try to assist. We would use due diligence to ensure that the business deal going ahead was something that was viable in the sense of giving it an opportunity of coming into existence. Saying that, we realize that in any of these ventures where banks tend not to become involved there is risk, and we have to measure that risk that the Assembly is willing to accept. If Members are supportive of initiatives going forward and willing to accept that, we, as an Assembly, would take on certain amounts of risk, then we would go forward on that basis. It would be a
concern if we were to engage in some of these business ventures where the risk was too great and the return almost not going to happen.
So I think we have to use due diligence but, at the same time, we recognize as a government, through many of our programs, that there is a need to support the small business in the small communities and try to do what we can as a government to encourage development. It's either that or we decide as a government to become sort of a social enterprise of helping or keeping people in a certain style of doing business. I think we have to recognize there's going to be an amount of risk in some of these areas in communities, and we have to look at it case by case, ensure we use due diligence, and provide the right amount of support; to ensure that, if we do go through a process of lending or guaranteeing money, we give the right support so that a venture would be profitable and be able to prosper. Thank you.