Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just quickly, as the Member is aware, we went to a bulk procurement process for our LHOs and part of the reason for that was to some of the issues that you raised was to make sure that there was a consistent approach to being used to inventory control on that there. There was some thinking behind what they bought and where we get it. For last year’s bulk procurement, 100 percent of the tenders in there and the contracts went to northern companies. Eighty percent were local and the 20 percent went to companies in other regions, when we did it by region by region. Certainly if there are examples in terms of the issue around BIP, you’re absolutely right that the LHOs should be following the Business Incentive Policy. If we know of examples where that isn’t taking place, we would certainly want to know those so that we can make sure that they understand their requirements to follow the Business Incentive Policy.

Just quickly on some of the contributions here in various spots but certainly in Yellowknife just in response to Mr. Bromley’s comments, while we provide obviously about 300 or 290 public housing units, there are a number of other organizations that we provide extensive support for. For example, Avens, we provide about $540,000 a year for them to operate their units. North Slave Housing here in the capital that runs about 75 units, we provide $1 million a year for their supports. Then there are a number of other smaller organizations and smaller facilities that we also provide some support including the YWCA to support the Rockhill operations. There are some of these in other communities I should mention to be fair. TP Housing in Inuvik for example is basically run social housing but we provide about $320,000 to them. We do operate

obviously a large number of units, but we also support a number of other groups that provide lower income folks with some housing support as well. Thank you, Mr. Chair.