Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I’ll be brief. The motion speaks for itself greatly. I agree with my colleague Mrs. Groenewegen on this. I think what needs to happen is we need to have a look at the BIP, and we don't need to reinvent the wheel. It has been, as Members have mentioned, reviewed numerous times over the years.

What needs to happen is that we need to focus our attention on truly northern businesses — businesses that contribute to the economy in the Northwest Territories. We can’t allow companies to be registered with a Business Incentive Policy where a guy is walking around the streets of Yellowknife or Inuvik or Norman Wells carrying a Blackberry or a cellphone, doing business in the Northwest Territories while, meanwhile, they have a workforce in the south — in Alberta or British Columbia, or in New Brunswick, for that matter. Again, I think we need to focus our efforts. We need to find out which businesses are truly northern, and we need to support the businesses here.

My fear if we do away with the Business Incentive Policy is that you’d see a lot of mid-sized

companies pack up and leave the Northwest Territories. They would go south, and they would have a guy on the streets here with a Blackberry bidding on contracts, and they wouldn’t contribute as much to the local economy. That’s a big fear I have with any move to get rid of the Business Incentive Policy.

Again, I support the motion. It seems like, on almost an annual basis, we’re up here trying to defend the BIP. Let’s do the BIP right. Let’s get out there and make it stronger — identify northern businesses so they can succeed and contribute to the northern economy we have here, Mr. Speaker. Mahsi.