Thank you, Madam Chairperson. Madam Chairperson, the Member is quite right; we are working towards levelling the playing field. We are working towards giving a greater autonomy to the communities; letting the communities make their own decisions and, at the same time, providing the tools that are necessary for them to do so. We have targeted 2008 as the year that we want to see our communities move toward or become municipal taxation authorities.

They currently pay taxes, they do pay leases and those things have to be recognized. We want the communities to have greater say on capital. We want communities to decide what projects should go or what infrastructure they need and how they should budget themselves. We want them to be able to leverage funding from the federal government or from industry, or wherever the funding is available. We want to be able to have the communities become more independent and have a greater say.

There are a lot of communities, of course, that are not quite in a position to do that at this point. There are quite a few others that have been requesting this for some time. This whole initiative is based on some recommendations that have come forward, especially the recommendation that came forward from the Special Joint Committee on Non-Tax-Based Community Affairs from the 14th Assembly, and it is something this government has been working on for some time. That is where we are heading. Thank you.