We do have quite a number of programs that were operated and will continue to be operated by the Government of the Northwest Territories. We will need to sit down with Members, especially in communities where there’s high cost of living and access is difficult, to review those programs and how they can either be enhanced or altered to work better in those communities.
There are programs, for example, in today’s environment that are available to all people across the Territories that have a bigger impact in those highest cost communities. The Territorial Power Support Program helps people for the first 750 kilowatt-hours, the Seniors’ Fuel Subsidy Program as well; and then our Income Support program, the food basket…. Now we have to look at, I guess, what would be termed as those on lower incomes working in communities that are feeling the very brunt of the increased cost of living and how we come up with programs. We need to sit down and have some discussion and debate on those.