Thank you, Mr. Speaker. From the very early days of this Legislative Assembly through our Strategic Initiatives committees, we also established the Rural and Remote committee to look at the level of programs and services offered in our communities and how we can look towards enhancing those, considering our existing environment is one of the key factors.

As I stated in my comments earlier on today that, for example, the RCMP and the backup policy and reaching out to smaller communities is one of those ways. The work of our electricity rate review project and team will probably be one of the biggest areas where we will see those of the highest cost areas be affected by that change that we are making. The other piece would be during our business plans, the many programs and services we have tried to enhance through that Rural and Remote committee and normal planning of departments.

When we do look at our facilities and we do look at the changing landscape of the Northwest Territories, we try to address those shortfalls that we do have in our communities. The unfortunate reality is in some cases it will take a number of years to create that levelling off. As well, it could be decades, as Members have seen, to make the change. For example, the Sahtu used to be within the... There were three regions, Inuvik, Yellowknife and South Slave, I believe. Now we have seven regions and the Sahtu has been starting to grow on that basis of being a regional centre. Thank you.