Yes, Mr. Speaker, of course I agreed to those provisions for a cost of living allowance in the north and moving expenses to get to the north.
Some areas in the north have to build their infrastructure on solid rock which makes it way more expensive than in other areas. Some parts of the north have huge housing deficits where there are 17 or 18 people living in a two bedroom house. This is absolutely shameful. The result in general is that housing costs are so huge that people in other parts of the country would not believe. Of course there is the cost of shipping food, transportation and all the other costs.
If we want talented people to live in some of those conditions that I am talking about, as someone mentioned earlier, who are not subject to negative influences, we have to pay them what is fair, pay them for the very difficult decisions they have to make. To make it fair in the north we have to make those adjustments, so I think that is a fair part of the legislation.