Thank you, Mr. Speaker. First, I want to apologize. At the end of my Members’ statement, I indicated that my questions would be for the Minister of MACA and in fact, it’s for the Minister of Finance. I just wanted to correct myself there. I thank my colleague, who went before me and asked some questions around this same subject matter. Quite frankly, a few of my questions have been answered. I will put this one forward to the Minister. It seems as though we are having some, these changes to the sole-sourcing limits are having some degree of impact on small business and local business and to some degree and being fair, negative impact. Will the Minister commit to developing some way in which to monitor and evaluate these impacts over a certain period of time and then be able to report back to the Members of this Assembly? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Minister of Finance.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this is a change that has just been made recently and I will commit to the Member and all Members that we’ll monitor the usage of these sole-source contracts. Again, as I answered to the Member previous, this was an initiative that was fully supported by a lot of the small business community and a lot of business and we were actually encouraged to consider because there hasn’t been a change, I believe, since 1993. I will make the commitment to monitor and we do have to file a contract report $5,000 and under. I think the Minister of ITI tables that, so we’ll monitor and I’ll keep the Members updated as to the usage of these sole source contracts. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Masi. Oral Questions. Member for Nahendeh.
