Thank you, Madam Chair. So now we have other information, other circumstances, and even though it's only the space of a couple of years we are, I feel, compelled to reverse that situation and go with the 14 percent rate.
I've said it several times before and it's a message, I think, that's worth repeating. Anything that our government does to increase the cost of living or the cost of doing business in the NWT has to be considered very, very carefully. There are so many other cost drivers here that we have no control over that put the crimp on people, on their families and on their businesses, that anything like
this has to be looked at with extreme care. I think again in this case we have done so. I know in the case of a business that's going to be charged more, that may not look like a very good reason. But as one of the MLAs sitting here looking at how we are managing our overall situation, this seems a realistic thing to do.
I would like to see if I could, for the public record, bring out a bit more information that may help me comprehend this a bit better and perhaps some people in the public too. The rate that we're setting here affects the large corporate taxpayer. Could the Minister or his officials define that, especially in the context of what then is a small taxpayer or the other tax levels here? What I want to do is try to bring a little bit of light to the situation where if people are running a small business out there, what is small, are they going to be captured in this. Just where is the cut-off for enterprises in the NWT who will be affected by this? Thank you, Madam Chair.