Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It being the last day, I thought I'd take a simple project, but actually not that simple. I'd like to talk about the Business Incentive Policy and manufacturing policy. The Minister just spoke about supporting manufacturing.

The policy requires that people who are on the list have to do 25 percent of value-added and their pricing has to be within 20 to 25 percent of the cost of the product as compared to other areas.

We have a list of manufacturers. We've had this list since 1996. As a Member here for the last three and a half years, I've been fighting constantly to get this manufacturing policy recognized. Most of the people on this list are fighting on a constant basis to get their business and their products recognized by the GNWT. The Minister and the government say they represent and support northern business, but yet we have to continue to fight every process, every way, and every difficulty.

We have people who are manufacturing things in the Northwest Territories, employing people in the Northwest Territories, but we continue to have to fight every tender. We have to keep an eye on the tender process to make sure that tender process is being followed, and to make sure that these people who are on the manufacturing policy list are not even supposed to have to tender. The product is supposed to be brought to them. We've been fighting constantly for this.

This policy is so convoluted that we actually have manufacturers in the Northwest Territories - we have one in Enterprise - that manufactures cabinets in the Northwest Territories, but he's not on this list. They haven't been on this list since the company started over a decade ago.

The manufacturing policy needs to be enforced and every department that buys products and services needs to know about this.

I see the Minister talked about advertising. The advertising doesn't need to be done in the Northwest Territories; it needs to be done in our own bureaucracy. It's very convoluted, it's not being followed, and we need to continue, we need to support northern manufacturing so we can create more jobs in the Northwest Territories. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.