Thank you, Madam Chair. I need to raise again the need for building standards for our communities. Most if not all jurisdictions in

Canada provide this and, somewhat mysteriously, this department or this government resists that responsibility. Yet the communities, if you read the resolutions and so on of the Northwest Territories Association of Communities, want building standards and they want support in inspection of such infrastructure and assistance in that.

My general comment is when, oh when, will we get building standards for our communities that will help them enjoy the sorts of efficiencies and operational savings that GNWT, for example, enjoys with our 25 percent better than national model Energy Building Code standards?