Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate, as well, Mr. Nadli’s comments and recognition of the hard work that the folks have put in to try to build this budget. His concerns are very consistent in terms of some of

the outside-of-Yellowknife issues: size of the bureaucracy, centralization versus decentralization.

The biomass project in his riding is being designed for the long term to be sustainable. We’re working on forest management agreements. The proponent has worked very hard to build up a business relationship with the communities and the Aboriginal governments, has signed agreements, looked into the employment opportunities, the partnership arrangements that are there, and it should stand the territory in good stead for many, many years to come, both in terms of the energy and the employment opportunities it’s going to provide.

As the Member indicated, there will be significant opportunity over the next five weeks with the other Ministers to discuss a lot of the detail that the Member has raised in areas like recreation facilities and employment opportunities and those type of things on a going forward basis and some of his suggestions for the future.