Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do appreciate that this is a finished product from years of work on the part of successive Ministers as well as collaboration with committee membership, as was indicated by the committee report. I do appreciate the information in the committee report, as well. Nevertheless, this is the first opportunity for many of us on this side to be looking at
this. We are not able to get all of the information out of what we have now, so, therefore, the questions.
My next question has to do with what has been mentioned in the committee report already. That has to do with some of the detailed items that have to be left in the regulations. There are so many issues to talk about under this topic, and the committee has already mentioned the dual purpose or dual track that happens in projects like this about the social projects versus economic projects and conflict question and many other things, economic diversification, one-stop shopping for those who need business development advice or banking advice or financing advice, especially in communities. One of the things that I talked about a lot in the last Assembly has to do with what I saw with money that was available under the Business Credit Corporation or the Business Development Corporation under the new name where I saw that the...While I support a lot of money and projects going into communities where there are no business opportunities, where they do need financial resources and financial advice and business advice; rather than seeing a lot of money going there, I was seeing money being approved for businesses in Yellowknife where I thought that they should be able to go to commercial banks to get loans and so on. I think the answers that I used to always get were that the government was serving as the lender of last resort and they were charging premium interest on them. In cases where they could not get commercial lending or commercial financing, the Business Credit Corporation has to be there to provide that sort of service. I think that continues to be a point of contention, and market disruption policies especially are something that I wanted us to debate in this forum, but I am learning from the committee report that that area is one of the areas that will be left to the regulations. That causes me great concern because we know that, regardless of the best intentions of the Minister and maybe the following Ministers because we don't know what will happen to the portfolio, general understanding is general understanding. We may not get the opportunity to do that.
Recognizing that, I would like to ask the Minister what his plans are and what his intentions are in terms of dealing with things like market disruption issues and many other issues that he is well aware of because he has been listening to it. He was on this side of the House when we talked about that a lot in the last Assembly. I don't know if he could talk about the details of what he sees happening, but what is the process he's interested in engaging in, first of all? Aside from involving the committee members, how is he proposing to come up with these policies and look at the details and get all of the necessary input for the regulations? Thank you, Mr. Chair.