Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, I definitely will commit to looking at this. There is the argument, and I have had lots of conversations with tourism operators in the last while, of if there is a business and they have an asset in the Northwest Territories, they spend money in the Northwest Territories, they employ Northwest Territories people, and this, again, is a larger conversation we're having in procurement, as well, where is the line of you could have the company owned by the guy in the Northwest Territories who is then hiring everybody out of the South and all the money is flowing out, or you can have it the other way around and you have this southern-owned business that actually is spending and keeping more money in the North. This is the complex situation that I find myself in with both hats on at this point. I commit to reviewing that for the Member. I did just also want to say that, if you do know of operators who have a very small business where the $500 fee is onerous, then have them please come to us and have that conversation. I don't think that there is any reason why, at times, that there couldn't be exceptions made for hard cases. Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Katrina Nokleby on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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