Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was going to make a quick general comment about the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline office and with the downturn and, I don’t want to say lack of activity, but how other groups are addressing it and reacting to it and yet we’re still continuing to put money into the office. I just want to make a general comment. I know we did a comment back to Mr. Bromley earlier.

I have a question in terms of the line item of industrial initiatives there. There is a decrease and the mandate of the industrial initiatives outlined in the activity description do a lot of work in terms of the socio-economic agreements and trying to make sure that this government gets the best bang for its dollar, I guess, and with the reporting and making sure that this government is accountable and transparent with the reports and that everything is brought forth so that we know what government is doing on behalf of the Northerners.

In my earlier general comments I talked about how we’d like to get more northern jobs in some of these mining industries. If I can ask the Minister why there is a decrease and how is that going to affect the mandate of this area under industrial initiatives.