Thank you, Madam Chair. My comments are going to be very brief. I'm glad to see that the department is going to invest some dollars for residents, communities, to prepare for the challenges and opportunities for the Mackenzie gas project. One item I'd just like to know is how much money the department actually spent to help provide the APG for funding. I'm kind of curious how many dollars is actually spent in that regard.

In regard to the traditional economy, hunters and trappers in the small communities always have a hard time to maintain their tradition, mainly because of the gas prices, et cetera. I hope that there's enough money in there to at least help them out to make sure that they can continue that program.

One of the interesting things that I noticed in the opening remarks, Madam Chair, is the sub-office in Inuvik. It's interesting to know that they will open an office, finally. I think it goes back to the time when they first talked about it and established the office in Hay River. It's good to see that they will open a sub-office in Inuvik.

In regard to the funding for the Mackenzie gas project, I recall last year when we were in Inuvik all of a sudden government had money to allocate to small business or to communities to get funding for the preparation of the Mackenzie gas project. So it's good to know that they will invest more money into that. It was just maybe overnight that they decided to do that, but it was money that came up to assist the communities.

A lot of the Members here already covered most of the things I wanted to talk about, Madam Chair, so these are just the general comments I'd like to...Oh, the last one is in regard to the business incentive policy. There is concern back home in that regard, so when it comes down to that section, I'll probably have questions for the Minister. Thank you, Madam Chair.