With the announcement of the Minister’s address, I’ve been getting a lot of phone calls from my constituents back in Inuvik in regard to how to use this $100,000, and as the other $100,000 that’s been allocated to do a strategic plan, as the planning process continues to move forward and all the leaders are at the table discussing how we can best deal with this situation, while discussions are going on there are a lot of worried people in the community of Inuvik with the residents and constituents. I do know that there is a meeting going on tomorrow and I hope we get some really positive outcomes of that.

As my colleague has stated earlier in regard to energy, this government is spending millions of dollars on subsidizing the fuel costs throughout the Northwest Territories. Those are monies that we can be looking at saving in the future by investing today, investing in our future today so that we don’t have to pay the costs further down the road.

Those are just some general comments. I do know there is a meeting tomorrow. I just hope that we get the best solutions out of that. It would be unfortunate if this was the only money allocated and then we have to find solutions elsewhere, but I look forward to hearing the outcomes of those. I look forward to seeing what can be addressed. That is the Inuvik situation, but as I mentioned, Inuvik and Norman Wells are the two main ones, but it is communities right across the Northwest Territories,

the high cost of living. That is it, Mr. Chair. Thank you.