Bob McLeod

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would ask you, through you, Richard Robertson, please.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That would be the Government House Leader and myself. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

That is correct. For those that are not in government offices. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. At one time we had a deputy minister of Intergovernmental Affairs based out of Ottawa and we had government offices. We found it was very helpful and useful to have a government office in Ottawa, so we've continued to maintain a government office. It keeps getting smaller and cheaper all the time just because of what's happening in Ottawa. The office space we had in the Delta building, because of renovations, we were able to get out of our lease and get a significantly better deal in or new office, which everybody should visit when they're in Ottawa, which has a view of...

We've taken a number of different approaches to it. Most of the mining companies that are operating in the Northwest Territories are very large companies that stake their reputation on achieving the targets that they've negotiated. We use a process of publishing the reports. Where those targets are not being met, we follow up with meetings. Certainly in the first instance when there was difficulty meeting targets, the diamond companies came to meet with us to find, well, why weren't we producing more students that could meet the academic requirements that could be streamed into trades or so on...

Thank you. I guess I would ask the MLAs to submit more women's names. They are the group we go primarily to for recommendations. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Through supporting the Aboriginal people of the Northwest Territories. Those people that are invited and attend the Indspire, they would pay their own way though whatever departments they were with. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, I would, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We will certainly do that. Also, we will provide the rationale that we have with regards to activity. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe that when the government, I believe it was the 16th Assembly, looked at changing seniors' health benefits, it was determined at that time…There was quite a hard look at Metis health benefits and non-insured health benefits for status and treaty Indians. This is something that we've been cognizant of for some time. I believe the Department of Health keeps a running record of every cent that's spent on Metis health benefits. The Department of Justice watches all of these cases very closely. At the appropriate time we will put forward our case, as we have done in...