Thank you, Madam Chair. We’ve initiated discussions through the initiative of trying to increase the population by 2,000 in the next five years with industry, the mines, in particular the Chamber of Mines plus the Chamber of Commerce, to look at how we minimize the fly-in/fly-out population and look at what opportunities are there as they come up with an expedited immigrant application process, which is going to come into play here in the new year.

We’ve also done a lot of work internally as a department to move to fill our very new vacancies we have both inside and outside of Yellowknife. We’re going to be having a major Energy Charrette that’s going to look seriously at generation of electricity, energy and how we lower the costs of what people pay for power.

In a whole host of areas, we are at work on dealing with the issue the Member has referenced. Thank you.