We’re looking at our initiative, as noted by the Member, where we’ve committed to provide an actual formal strategy that links together all the pieces that we’re doing on our 2,000 folks into the territory in now four years. We see that as, once again, a way where we can bring people into the territory.
The issue of changing the tax rates, more taxes on the higher income, lowering it on the lower incomes, we haven’t. I’ve made a decision, we’ve made a decision that we want to focus on building the tax base. So we haven’t spent a lot of time looking at how much we would need to raise the
taxes on the high income, lower them on the lower and middle income. If it’s to be revenue neutral, that’s one thing. If it’s to put a whole bunch of new revenue in the pockets of the government so that we can spend it on other needs, then I would think that would be a fairly significant increase. We’ve tried over the years to raise our corporate taxes. We raised them up to 14 percent. I think that lasted about a year. We’ve quickly changed back to a more competitive rate as there was an absolute flood of equity and investment out of the Northwest Territories to file their taxes in other jurisdictions where the rates were more competitive. So it’s a very delicate balance. Thank you.