Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, as I stated earlier, back in 1999, we started doing some of the work as fiscal policy would be where that work would originate. We would have to either contract out or get other organizations outside of government to do some work with us and it followed from there.

So in 1999, we commissioned a study, as I stated earlier, and followed some of the recommendations from the government's input/output model, and then we worked with the Department of RWED again in commissioning the Canada West Foundation to do some work with us in that area. As well, coming out of that, a lot of the issues that did come out were in areas of public policy development and opportunities and constraints that we were facing as a government, as well as telling us that we need to focus on restructuring our fiscal arrangements with Canada. The work has been done from within the Department of Finance, but we have had to go out and get the support when we undertook some larger pieces of the work. For example, in 2000, we commissioned the Canadian Energy Research Institute to study the impact of a possible Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline on the economies of the NWT. So when we needed to do that work, we had to go out and buy that support. Thank you.