Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm glad the Member has raised the issue of consultation again, specifically in highlighting in his Member's statement the fact that I've, in the past, presented our fiscal situation and the strategies we'd have to work with, and how I guess he would put it, has selective memory of what I've stated. For the record, Mr. Speaker, when we've put the case before Members about where our situation was, I've also informed them why our arrangements were the way they were. So just for the record, Mr. Speaker, it wasn't the fact that we would say that we did not care if large corporations would file their tax outside the Northwest Territories. Our fiscal arrangement of the day impacted how we made our decisions.

Further to the question, Mr. Speaker, about consultation, is through the process of building the budget that's before the Members, through our supplementary appropriations for new expenditures, we undergo quite a rigorous process unlike any other jurisdiction in Canada -- the only one similar to us would be Nunavut -- in how we share the information and what our plans are. With the reduction scenario that the Member has raised, that was an area that we were informed of. I informed the House of our reduction in corporate taxes back in October, and that forced us to look at the overall budget and look for reductions. When you look at the amount we had to reduce, the target I sent to departments, in consultation with my Cabinet colleagues, was a one percent reduction. When you look at that scope of one percent over the whole budget of $1 billion, it's a fairly small amount and Ministers felt that they could take that amount and work it within the departments they were managing. Thank you.