Thank you, Mr. Speaker. One of the goals of the 17th Legislative Assembly is a

diversified economy that provides all communities and regions with opportunities and choices. Going back to my Member’s statement with the Business Incentive Policy, I threw out a solution there in terms of looking at increasing our local content in the Business Incentive Policy. One suggestion is, when I’ve talked to local businesses back home, maybe flipping it, flipping the local content to 15 percent and the northern content to 5 percent. You’ll still get the northern content in your local content for the Business Incentive Policy, but when you’d make it localized then you’re diversifying economies to the communities across the Northwest Territories. I gave a lot of benefits in my Member’s statement to that, all the benefits if we focused more content to the local businesses, and we’d be supporting local businesses.

My first question to the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment: Has the department looked at increasing the local content or even, furthermore, switching the local and northern content percentages during the Business Incentive Policy review?