Thank you, Madam Chairman. Anyways, I'm just thinking about the business incentive policies. In the early days when I was the local housing authority manager in the community in N'dilo, we managed all our housing in our community. We had a block funding agreement with the housing corporation where we agreed to build X amount of units in our community. But we had to follow the business incentive policy which means that we had to buy all cabinets from the North, all the windows from the North, all the screw jacks from the North, all the trusses from the North, etcetera. But what's happening now is that, you know, the chief in Fort Resolution made it very clear that they don't want no trailers in the community and yet we know here we are, we're bringing trailers into the community, taking away employment from our people in the communities. And so I'm not really sure in this going forward, your policy, the business incentive policy and working with the housing corporation, I'm not sure how they're going to really fix this problem. We know that high cost of living. We know the high cost of building. We know the high cost of materials in the south and the labour in the North etcetera is high. And so I remember in the early days where we had the business incentive policy, they kind of frown -- they didn't really like the idea that we were to use -- buy trailers from the south. And they promote it in the business incentive policy. But yet now we got these trailers that are being purchased from down south with no real benefit to northern BIP suppliers. So I'm not sure how your department is managing that. Can you maybe talk about that a little bit so it's a little bit more clear as to how you're going to deal with this BIP policy on the Industry, Tourism and Investment? Thank you.
Richard Edjericon on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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