Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Member is correct. We do have a lot of experience with standards and particularly building and construction in the unique environment of the North, where we work with permafrost, extreme temperatures, demands on envelopes. Within the department, we have, for the large commercial buildings, developed our "good building practices," and these have been developed over probably 30 years of history, working with large infrastructure projects. We take lessons learned, document them, and develop those into what we call the "good building practices." Those are required to be adhered to for all of our infrastructure projects that we do construct for public infrastructure and for the Government of the Northwest Territories.

Those standards and good building practices are certainly available publicly. For anybody else doing building and infrastructure in the Northwest Territories, they can adopt those and use those in their own contracting practice if they choose. The more smaller scale, I think the Housing Corporation has done some similar work with standards for residential construction. They work with their own stock, to develop best practices and share that information widely. In terms of municipal approval process, my understanding is that tax-based communities have the ability to adopt and implement a building-inspection regime, so some larger municipalities in the Northwest Territories. I believe Yellowknife has their own code-enforcement division, and they have adopted things like EnerGuide 80 around energy efficiency, which are applicable to buildings in their jurisdiction. So there are some municipal governments that are doing this already. Certainly, the work that we do is publicly available and can be used or adopted or shared throughout the North and in other jurisdictions in the North, as well. Thank you, Mr. Chair.