Thanks to the Minister for that. It’s hard for me to believe in this case that the budget allowed a differential of $60,000.

In the Minister’s Statement earlier he started off his statement by saying, we want to make sure that local businesses can benefit from government contracting opportunities, and that’s a lot of the point that I’m trying to make today.

I’d like to ask the Minister, what does he ensure, or what does Public Works and Services, would procurement shared services do to ensure that northern businesses get government contracting opportunities? How does procurement maximize the process for northern vendors? Thank you.