Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I, too, want to express my appreciation for this motion coming forward. I feel really strongly that any funds within the Heritage Fund belong to the people of the

NWT; they don’t belong to the Assembly. I think that there needs to be a certain amount of public oversight on the fund itself and the reporting of the fund needs to be monitored to a certain extent by the public. I appreciate the recommendation from the Minister, and it was accepted by committee, that we don’t need an arm’s length body to monitor the fund in the first period while we are not withdrawing funds. I think this is sort of a good compromise that the reports from the Heritage Fund will go to a standing committee for review and for consideration. I would encourage that that standing committee would make it as public a process as possible. There certainly are organizations and individuals that live within the NWT who have an interest in monitoring what we do with the Heritage Fund, how it’s performing, whether it’s performing as they believe it should, and they need the opportunity for input. I’m really glad to see that this motion is here and I strongly support it.