Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, this is still on the radar screen. It's still something we want to consider. But we need to determine what our fiscal situation will be as a government first through the financing formula and also through resource revenue sharing. Mr. Speaker, other jurisdictions, and we have looked across North America, in fact, I have, what other jurisdictions are doing to reduce the cost of living. Some Members have mentioned to me that in Alaska, for example, there is no Alaska income tax. There's federal income tax, but no Alaska income tax, and that's true in some other jurisdictions in the United States.
Mr. Speaker, our objective still has to be to lower the cost of living for northern residents, but we have to do it in a way that's affordable for us. I think the important piece is that we know what our revenue stream is going to be, and I'm sure the Minister of Finance can speak quite eloquently on this issue for us of how we balance our revenue, our loss of revenue, people's cost of living and so on. But, Mr. Speaker, in summary, yes, this is very much on the radar screen and one that we do want to look at because we realize that if we do not lower the cost of living, it makes it difficult for people to live here or to attract new people to come live here. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
