Thank you, Mr. Chair. I was going to support looking at it to move to January 1^st. However, we see this in writing, and it says September 1^st, and, in my small communities, our elders and our seniors are already seeing an impact on the seniors' heating subsidy program. We have changed it to a monetary value, which reduces the amount of fuel we can put in the community, into their homes. I have residents who presently have to fill half a tank. They cannot even fill the full tank because of the cost of living on this, so I cannot chance what could be to what the reality is. As of September 1^st, from my understanding reading this tabled document, September 1^st, the federal government is imposing their bill, so it's going to have a huge impact on the residents of the Nahendeh riding, especially the elders. At the end of the day, I cannot support something that is going to have an impact on the elders. If the federal government said, yes, we can go to January 1^st, that would be great. It saves us four months of it, but, right now, from what I read here it's September 1^st. I really wanted to support the January 1^st, but now we have it in writing.

The chair of P&P went and got this from the Minister and put it in front of this, so listening to the debate here, for me, it's about the residents of Nahendeh and the residents of the Northwest Territories and, most importantly, our seniors because our seniors are on fixed income. By at least having the tax rebated back at the pump or the truck that is delivering it to their homes, they are not going to be impacted further. For that reason, I cannot support this part of the motion. Thank you, Mr. Chair.