Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I had addressed during the budget process and laying out the issues that we have to face, subsidies work in the short term not in the long term. We are going to have to do things differently and it's about how we use our energy, the cost of producing that energy. They are big things. It's not going to be immediate. The transportation systems, communication systems, have to be improved to reduce those types of things.

Mr. Speaker, when travelling in the Nunakput region, stopping in the community of Paulatuk and visiting their Northern Store and looking at their produce section and one tomato costing $4.67 sends a message to us. Yes, we have to do something differently. But much of what we can do or try to improve on is going to take a significant amount of time and investment of cash. Short term, subsidies will work, but we try to do things, for example, with our own employees. The northern allowance package deals with different zones within the territory to try to deal with those high cost of living areas. That works for us, but doesn't work for the private sector, I realize that. So there are things we are doing and looking at and some of the things are going to be more far reaching and cost a whole lot in the area of investment. Thank you.