Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for that. I guess I'm telling him my position so that he can take it up with others.

But we need to understand that tradeoffs and opportunity costs; in other words, what would a similar expenditure of funds in any other economic sector actually generate in terms of employment and benefits and the distribution of those jobs and benefits.

So will the Minister commit to ensuring that when GNWT starts pushing for this regional study that consideration of alternatives and opportunity costs are an essential part of the regional study. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.