Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The issue of taxation collection and the cost to the Northwest Territories has been raised. I’ve raised it as a Minister myself when we look at different options of what we may do. I’d have to go back. If committee wants to do that work, we could look at doing that. We haven’t done it as of yet. I’d have to recall which meeting that may have come up at.
But we have looked at different tax relationships and the potential impact. Right now we find jurisdictions — in fact, I believe it’s Ontario that has just recently decided to work with the federal government and have the federal government collect their taxes. It will become effective if not this year coming, then the year after. That decision was made last year, I believe. So we’ve got even the
larger jurisdictions looking at trying to streamline their collection processes.
As we talked about earlier, we’re going to go out and go to committee first on potential revenue options and go to the public throughout the summer to get some input there and look at options. When we look at those options, that may trigger this other event of our own taxation collection process. We’ll have to have that discussion as we look at the old tax revenue option potential for the Northwest Territories.