We see our role now as support to the communities. We work with them closely in identifying best practices, and if there’s a need to try and identify some financing that they have to go and borrow to see their projects come on stream, then we work with them. We point out some of the challenges they might face. Then, at the end of the day, after we provide them all the advice, the ultimate decision is theirs.

Again, I give a lot of credit to the communities. Through the NWT Association of Communities and Local Government Administrators of the Northwest Territories they’ve done a pretty good job in trying

to help the communities adjust to a lot of the new responsibilities they have. There are so many more people from the communities taking courses now through the School of Community Government. All the support systems are there and I like to say, at the end of the day, the final decision is the community’s, and that’s the way I believe it should be.