Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will look forward to that information. The Minister indicated part of the strategy -- which I think is one of the most relevant and necessary -- is bringing sex education into grades at a younger age. There is a move underway right now, I think, in one of the Maritime provinces, to do this. Has this initiative been taken to the district or community education level to get their initial input and buy-in into this idea? Have we gone there yet? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions this morning are for the Minister of Health and Social Services, related to the alarming reports about the incidence of sexually-transmitted infections in the Northwest Territories. The report filed indeed signals that we need to take some very strong action. The information presented in this document is not all that complete. I wanted to ask the Minister, at this stage, what has been done to put more detail on the plan and make a turnaround in this very sad situation possible. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. I follow the Minister’s argument there. I guess what I’m looking at is a rate rider, Mr. Chairman, from my understanding, is a temporary price adjustment. It is subject to certain terms and time frames. The Minister is referring to the base rate, which again, from my understanding, is something that goes through an extraordinarily complex process and has to be approved by the Public Utilities Board. The base rate will not change, because there’s a temporary rate rider imposed on Yellowknife. So this is my understanding. I wanted to confirm with the Minister if this is the case. Are...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We’re always ready to accommodate everybody in Committee of the Whole. I appreciate your mention. I wanted to thank Mr. Voytilla for that explanation. Obviously he and his work with the folks at the Power Corporation and perhaps the Public Utilities Board and Northland Utilities will have access to a greater level of detail than I. I can only hope that forecast of zero growth in the cost of this subsidy will hold for this coming year. I guess I must express some skepticism considering the trend that we’ve seen, but I will not challenge it any further.

The government...

Why is it that all of a sudden we’re about to put the brakes on this and anticipate no change? It just looks as if there’s some kind of an anomaly going on with the trends in the forecasting. That’s where I’d like to put this question. Why, in the face of sustained and fairly predictable increases in the cost of this subsidy, is there no increase forecast for next year? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Good. I am pleased to see we are keeping the initiative. These are big pieces of work. We had expressed an intention at the beginning of our term as the Legislative Assembly to focus on this. I look forward to seeing progress on this in the coming year, Mr. Chairman. I certainly would like to avoid a traffic jam, if you will, as our term comes to a close. We have about two-and-a-half years left to make some of these changes, so let’s keep going.

Mr. Chairman, I have one other question. I believe it’s in this area, again, from the business plan. There is an objective to complete a review and...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Sometimes it’s a bit of a quiz knowing just where to bring the question up, but I think the question I have belongs in this area. It relates to some of the information contained in the 2005-2008 Business Plan that FMB has filed along with the rest of the government, and it relates to the undertaking to do a comprehensive review of the Public Service Act, Mr. Chairman, the act and regulations, with a view to updating the act and regulations during this coming fiscal year.

This is a major piece of work and it is one that I support and look forward to. I wanted to ask the...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I’ll keep my comments to one area and it relates to the transition that we’re undertaking for our government-wide human resources to consolidate this function within FMBS. I think there are quite a number of similarities to the service centre concept that Ms. Lee was talking about with technology that I think has had a reasonably good role. Like Ms. Lee, I must share some complications with my own computer skills, but the service that I’ve been getting from the TSC has been really good.

What I wanted to look at here was the creation of this consolidation. It is a...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Minister has volunteered quite a bit of information there. I appreciate it and it’s, thankfully, no surprise that we are behind this bill. I wanted to ask further to this, the NWT has shown leadership in the formation of a National Diamond Council and I wanted to see if the Minister could tell us are other provinces, which are undoubtedly going to be involved in the diamond trade as well, also behind this excise tax amendment and are they also signalling their approval for this amendment? Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, thank you. Before the break we were discussing the Power Subsidy Program, and I had raised a question, in my mind, about whether the policy referred to base rates or Yellowknife rates. I had a chance to look at the policy and, for the record, it says Yellowknife rates, which, therefore, of course, gives the FMBS the ability to apply the subsidy according to whatever the rate of the day is. I would take that interpretation of it. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to say that I had managed to check into that and that's the finding. Thank you.