Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’m in favour of it, but the same lines as Mr. Beaulieu. Some of our communities there’s so much that has to be done before some money is put aside. There’s schools, there’s roads, there’s just basic youth facilities that are needed in the smaller communities and stuff that I’ll probably never see in my lifetime, but at the end of the day we’ve got to try to keep providing services to our youth and giving them what’s needed.

If the devolution deal goes through, within three years we’ll have some money to do some good for all of the Northwest Territories, but the money that we’re planning to set aside if we were in the upcoming 17th Legislative Assembly, I mean, we

have people on income support that can’t even provide for their children and that has to be looked at. We either look at almost increasing on income support per household and per client.

We have to create jobs in the communities, not just quick fixes, but long-term employment such as roads. If we’re able to get the Tuk-Inuvik highway done, that opens up the North. In the Western Arctic, if we become a deep sea port, there’s so much potential there. An LNG plant possibly going in to Tuk, a lot of jobs. The cost of living is going to go down regarding fuel oil for your private homeowners for your home and gasoline for your vehicle or your boat to go hunting. I’m in favour, but we’re not in a position to do this and if we were to do this, it’s going to be really minimal monies that are set aside until devolution is signed.

When the 17th Legislative Assembly comes in they

really have to look at this on a go-forward basis, but the priority one is we’ve got to take care of the people we represent and make sure they’ve got a roof over their heads, they’ve got jobs and can provide for their families. I will be supporting it and we’ll leave it to the 17th Assembly. Thank you, Mr.

Chair.