Thank you.
Thank you to the people who have joined us here to talk about the budget.
I'm from the Northwest Territories. The issue of carbon pricing created a lot of discussion. The Government of Northwest Territories has but together its plans and is ready to move forward. There are some things that we still needed to work out, including how it will impact our formal financing agreement, in particular, own-source revenues and clawbacks. I think we're just about there.
We still have some concern though. Given that the Northwest Territories is very remote, along with the other two territories, Yukon and Nunavut, we get all our supplies from other jurisdictions. For us, it's mostly Alberta. Yukon gets a lot from B.C., and for Nunavut, it's from Ontario and Quebec.
Any project, any kind of activity, requires us to get products from other jurisdictions. There is already carbon pricing in other jurisdictions: B.C., Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec. We are already paying for carbon pollution. That's included in some of the products we pick up.
Is there a mechanism to prevent us from paying twice, once when we get the product in the north and if it's resold? Is there a way to protect us from that? We could get a double impact from this if we don't do it properly.