Thank you, Madam Chair. I sometimes think that Rocky and I live in the same place, because we have a lot of similarities between the people who we serve and the concerns that come up in our ridings. I'm going to try not to repeat what he has just said, but I think that these next two pages are some of the most important pages in our mandate document, simply because we heard yesterday from the finance Minister that a lot of our revenue, a lot of our prime drivers of our economy, are money that the government is putting into the economy. If we are reliant on ourselves to fuel the Northwest Territories, then we need to make sure that the money from the Northwest Territories is going to northern businesses. When we're looking at benefit retention, and we're looking at procurement and contracting, this is where we keep the money in the Northwest Territories. This is really important to sit down and talk about.

I was really happy to hear the Member from Yellowknife Centre talk about making sure that the best practices are put together by actual business owners, because with the best intentions, unless you're the ones using the policy, you really need people who, on the day-to-day, are out there competing for contracts to be able to let you know what works and what doesn't work. If we can really empower business owners, and actually listen to them, and make sure that we are 100 percent not wasting their time, because time is quite literally money in that sense, then I think it is a great idea. I would just urge the department to make sure that they're using business time wisely.

The other thing is I'd like to mention that I would like it not just to be associations that we're approaching, because of the fact that we have small and medium businesses that operate without any type of affiliation with associations, especially out in Kam Lake, and I'm assuming Hay River as well, and a lot of our small communities.

The other thing that I would like to mention is in regard to P3s. A lot of people who I have spoken to in my own riding in regard to our most recent P3s have really lost out. Where we have gone to businesses and we have said, "This project is too big of a scale for your operation." Well, lo and behold, we hired a southern company to do the work, then that southern company turned around and hired our local company to do the work, and then our local company had to go and fight the southern companies to actually get paid, some of which have not been paid, and this is years down the road. We're not only hurting Northerners through our P3s; we're devastating Northerners through our P3s, and that's not fair. We really need to make sure that we are protecting Northerners through our P3 projects, and that does not seem to be happening.

As far as the one-stop shop for vendors online, the more time that people can spend in their businesses, the less time they can spend bidding on contracts, the better, because that opens them up to be able to do stuff like mentorships, to be able to further develop their projects, to be able to take people under their wings. The more we can do to make the administrative burden of getting government contracts, the better.

The last thing that I'd like to just ask, I guess, as a question instead of a whole series of comments is: are we willing to review all elements of the Business Incentive Policy? Thank you.