We, as a government, have mapped out our next steps, now that we know the transmission project is prohibitively expensive to look at generation in all the communities. That is the plan where we believe there is the ability to seriously affect the cost of living.
The Member would know, as a Member of this Legislative Assembly, while from Inuvik, to look at all the needs of people in the Northwest Territories, that it would not be possible just to look at Inuvik as a stand-alone community for some special subsidy when you listen to the cost of living in McPherson and Tsiigehtchic and Sachs and Paulatuk and Ulukhaktok and Aklavik that we could not in good conscience just look at Inuvik. We are back to the issue of what is the long-term benefit. Are we just enabling and are we better off to do the planning to get people off diesel rather than just keep subsidizing and putting more money in the pockets of the oil companies and the big energy companies? Thank you.