Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have questions for the Minister of Finance and it’s in regard to the tax collection. Mr. Speaker, one of the issues that’s often raised here in this House is about trying to get Northerners to live in the North to make sure they pay their taxes in the North. A constituent brought forward an issue, a potential idea on how to collect taxes. They asked why can someone work in a specific area of Canada and not have to pay taxes in that area. In other words, if someone works here in the North at a mine and they make the lion’s share of their income here, why aren’t there rules that oblige them to file their taxes in the Northwest Territories?

I guess my point really is, it doesn’t restrict them where they can work, it doesn’t restrict them where

they can live, by no means, but it builds a framework as if the money was made and earned here in the North, then shouldn’t they perhaps be filing their taxes here in the North.

Mr. Speaker, my question directed to the Minister Finance is: Has any work ever been done under that type of philosophy to consider that if you earn your money in the North, you should be filing your taxes in the North? Thank you, Mr. Speaker