Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank the Minister for that response. Like I mentioned earlier, I know both mining companies, BHP Billiton and Diavik, and they have done a tremendous amount locally and in the Northwest Territories to help support the local communities; whether it be sports, culture, anything, they are usually the first ones to step up to the plate to help out. What I am getting at here, is there are still jet loads of
workers that just use Yellowknife as a hopping off point to go back home to southern Canada.
I think what we have to do, as government, is try to find ways to...You can't force anybody to stay here, but there are other ways that you could encourage them to do so. I'm not sure if as a government we are doing enough to try to encourage and promote workers that are at these mines to consider living in the Northwest Territories whether it be Fort Smith, Hay River or Yellowknife. As long as they are living somewhere in the Northwest Territories and we are getting some benefit out of them working here, I think that is something that we should be paying more attention to; especially, on the verge of a third producing mine coming on stream with the Snap Lake development and perhaps the Kennedy Lake and the Gahcho Kue, a few years from now. We have to try to encourage and promote people living in the Northwest Territories as much as we can.
I am wondering if the Minister has any strategies to try to encourage that happening. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.