Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The assertion initially was that we were missing up to $12 million to $15 million a year in lost tax revenue because of unreported tobacco sales. We put a significant amount of manpower onto that issue to follow up on that matter. As Finance Minister, the thought of us missing that kind of revenue, given our fiscal circumstances, immediately got my eye. We spent months doing the work. We’ve come back. The first finding is that there’s a reasonable assurance that the GNWT was collecting the required tobacco tax revenue.
The Member has some ongoing concerns. I’m prepared to look at and discuss those further. He’s made a suggestion. I don’t believe there’s a silver bullet that will provide the type of certainty that the Member asks for, and in the businesses that we’re in, I don’t think we could point to any that provides 100 percent certainty in anything we do. Thank you.