I obviously disagree with the Minister. Subsidies aren’t available to every resident of the Northwest Territories. Most residents of the Northwest Territories don’t get subsidies for anything. Most of the subsidies are for individuals who are under the average salary line, who require assistance just to meet the basic needs of living on a given day. I don’t see how they reduce the cost of living for the average employee or the average person in the Northwest Territories.
I would like to just follow up. One of the items she mentioned was roads. Clearly, roads are a way to reduce the cost of living, but I don’t remember seeing in the last budget and I don’t remember seeing in any of the supps any indication that we are going to be creating new roads or all season roads to any of the communities that don’t already have them. So how are roads, in fact, reducing the cost of living to residents? By residents I mean the vast majority of residents of the Northwest Territories.