Thank you, Madam Chair. As I think Members know, I'm in discussions with the chambers around the North and the business community more broadly. All the business community stakeholders have had a chance to sit down with the NWT Chamber. They are engaging their membership in this discussion to talk about the BIP, membership's perceptions of the BIP, whether or not people still think it's relevant and useful. I have discussed with them options for replacing the BIP with one option that we were looking at is a tax break for small business, what would amount to potentially a 50 percent break in the small business tax rate, from four to two percent. These are options at this point. We're trying to get some feedback from the small business community and that will continue for the next little while, a couple of months, but I would like to resolve this issue one way or another fairly quickly here in the spring. Thank you.
Brendan Bell on Committee Motion 24-15(4): Recommendation To Establish An Interpretive Centre At Chan Lake, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on February 22nd, 2006. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 24-15(4): Recommendation To Establish An Interpretive Centre At Chan Lake, Carried
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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