Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a couple of brief comments as well. I think one of the biggest factors in this department is devolution. I think it’s one of the keys to the future of the Territories and one of the progressive things that we’re looking at doing. Along with this devolution are also the concerns of what that brings for the future, what existing things that we’re signing right now with the federal government, what will we be able to change, what will we not be able to change.

The other thing that one of my colleagues mentioned was decentralization and the potential of jobs for devolution. I’m a strong supporter of that concept of getting those jobs out to the regions, into groups where the communities can take on these jobs and be ready for them.

I think one of the tools that are available to us right now is the program review office. They have done some reviews of the government. It may be something that we want to extend out of that office, is to look at the viability and the operations that are currently happening in the federal government and what devolution can bring to the Territories. My feelings towards the program review office are kind of mixed. I think they do have some good ideas on some of the reviews. One of the reviews I don’t, that they just implemented, was this new office building in Yellowknife, which I strongly don’t support for several reasons and one of those reasons is decentralization where we’re going to build a bigger office in Yellowknife again, giving us more reason to have more offices and jobs in Yellowknife. I think it’s anti-productive to what I’d like to see the government doing as far as decentralization and moving the devolution jobs out to the regions.

Along with another colleague that talked about the NGO stabilization, I know there’s a pot of money there, but it seems like it’s not quite enough. It seems like – and I may be corrected here – they’re going to some of the larger organizations that are territorial organizations that are centralized in the capital. It would be nice to have some additional funding for out in the regions and the communities.

That is some of the concerns that I have in the current budget for this department. Thank you.