Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, will be supporting the motion.

Before I give that support, I’d like to mention that this policy is not perfect. We do have some challenges, especially in our small communities. We’re not seeing the benefits flowing to a lot of our communities with regard to projects, because of capacity issues and the high cost of running a business in a smaller community versus the larger regional centres, where you have lots of options. I think we have to look at the distribution of this policy and where it is working and where it is not working. More important is realizing that we have a lot of opportunities, but at the end of the day, you cannot have businesses going out of business or having to move because they cannot sustain a workforce or sustain a business by way of the viability of a business and the high cost of operating those businesses.

I think we have to tinker with this policy, but I don’t think we should totally eliminate it. I think we also have to work with the First Nations governments, corporations and whatnot and allow them the opportunity to take on some of that work by way of developing the ability to take on this work. A lot of these companies have been developing over the years and have gone out of business or had to get out of those businesses. I think we have to look at what’s working and what’s not.

I will be supporting the motion subject to some tinkering of the policy.