Thank you. As Members that have been around this Assembly for a number of terms, as well as know the history of our Territory as it has developed, we used to have a level of services set out in the government standards, depending on your size of population and community. We have worked with that and in fact expanded that beyond those initial guidelines to look at the level of programs and services. One of the things that happens now is it’s broken down into our tax-based communities and the general taxation area. When we talk about the services in larger communities, there’s a higher tax burden on the individuals living within the large communities to pay for those enhanced services.

As the Government of the Northwest Territories, we can show that in fact when it comes to trying to balance that field at least on a per capita basis fund to a higher level to try to bring those communities if they’re still lacking, and we know that, and we continue to try to work with changing the way we deliver our programs so we’ll see that enhancement. With our discretions, we’ve heard throughout the life of this Assembly and many Assemblies, devolution and resource revenue sharing. With the new revenues that would come our way, that would help us deliver a higher level of programs and services with the communities, as well as sharing some of those resources with the aboriginal governments. Thank you.