Mr. Speaker, as the Government of the Northwest Territories has quite a number of programs through our Minister’s responsibility under ITI, we do a number of things, whether it is through the Business Incentive Policy, so we have contractors in the North taking advantage of the work that we have available as the Government of the Northwest Territories. Our SEED program, for example, that we put in place to help businesses in our smaller communities. So we have done quite a number of things to enhance businesses in the North. We know we need to do a better job.

The other things we have tried to do, for example, is when we have socio-economic agreements in place, to again give preference to hiring in the North, not only hiring of employees but the contractors as well, as we know that we have tried to help when it comes to groups looking at IBAs, as we call them, or impact benefit agreements as well.

The other thing we have in place, Mr. Speaker, is an approach that I took with the Prime Minister, specifically with Norman Wells and the oilfields. That was to look at trying to recoup some of those dollars that go to the federal government under an equity program, and reinvest those dollars in the

North in infrastructure. That would see us expand on our critical infrastructure needs in the Northwest Territories. We have had a commitment to have discussions on that, but there has been no further movement in that area. Thank you.