Mahsi, Madam Chair. I am just trying to get the picture straight here. It looks like half a million dollars is quite a big sum of money for work that, I have to agree with one of my other colleagues, should have been done or something should have transpired out of some policy skeleton or a framework should have developed by now, you would think. I realize now the government is trying to get a better picture of how the government can benefit and contribute to the whole NWT when it's dealing with different mega projects that will be happening in the NWT at the same time and how we can work in unison with all these developments that are going on at the same time. I don't want to even think or try to fathom the idea that we haven't been doing that in the past for the last 25 years that the government has been in existence, or 45 years for that matter. Somebody must have sat down in Finance and said we should look at the big picture and figured out how our taxation regime with the mines affects the Mackenzie gas project, which affects exploration and back and forth. We should have had some work done by now that actually gives a general idea of how one area affects the other area, one department works with another department and how changes in one department can affect changes in different departments.
We must have something in writing by now or some kind of a skeleton to this whole macroeconomic development policy. Is there anything that we can look at to even get the slightest idea of where the government is at with this right now before we commit another half a million dollars to it? Thank you, Madam Chair.