Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the department continues to do its best to provide a level of service for people who are in this area. It is very difficult for families who have to work with their own family members as well as adapting our existing resources to try and help out where we can and we will continue to do that within our existing resources to try and help those families who find themselves in this situation, as well as continue to work cooperatively with the YACCS group to try and come up with a solution that can hopefully meet the needs as we move forward. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, joining me at the witness table here to my right is the deputy minister of the Department of Finance, Ms. Margaret Melhorn; to my far left is Mr. Gerry Gagnon, manager of tax policy; and we have Rebecca Veinott, legislative counsel, Justice.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as our process works, each department would put forward its capital plan and then it goes through a capital planning process which meets with seniors' capital planning committee, then through the deputy ministers and then forwarded to the FMB and Cabinet for a decision to build the business plan and present the Members in this House. The department has included it as an important facility. It did not make the cut through the process, so we’ll have to go back to the phase and put it back in. It remains a priority for this government. Ultimately it comes down...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am pleased to introduce Bill 20, An Act to Amend the Income Tax Act. This bill will increase the dividend tax credit on dividends received from large corporations, effective the 2006 tax year.

Dividends paid by public corporations and large Canadian-controlled private corporations have incurred double taxation under the existing federal and NWT Income Tax Acts. The higher dividend tax credit will reduce the personal taxes individuals pay on taxable dividends.

The proposed change will parallel measures announced in the May 2006 federal budget, which were introduced...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the way our program works is all individuals are required to register for health care services in the Northwest Territories. Those who receive non-insured health benefits receive over and above what other residents do receive. It's a staged program. So all people would be registered in the Northwest Territories and would end up falling under this category. I can get further detail to the Member if that's required. Thank you.

Sorry, Mr. Chairman, I'd have to hear that question again.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the direction was given to live within the budget and that's the intent and that's the work that's being done, is to do the work that's necessary within the budget. We're waiting for our final layout as to what renovation will be taking place, and then I can come back to this House with further information. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the treatment centre is, as the Member pointed out, a decision was made to relocate and look at one of our existing facilities in the community of Hay River for a renovation projection. We've worked with the Department of Public Works and Services on a cost analysis of that, and it was decided, after a second review of that, that we would proceed with a renovation of that facility and are continuing to work with the Department of Public Works and Services to come up with some final options on that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as the process works for referrals from one doctor to another, one jurisdiction to another, it requires having a doctor in our jurisdiction make that referral. As Minister, the process as established through our professionals is something that I would endorse. As for the department meeting, myself sitting down with the department to look at this specific case, I’ve begun that process to look at this. Ultimately again, as I stated earlier in another round of questions, I would work with the professionals in this field to see what we can do. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the regime where we work under and the environment we work under today without this change, if someone was to receive a dividend from a corporation, the existing process would be that they'd be hit up in a sense, as I had stated in my opening comments, a double hit on taxation because of our federal/territorial rules. That's why a lot of corporations would set other things up. For example, income trusts. That scenario is a flow-through which then we would not, as a GNWT, receive any of that possible tax. So that's the reason why we're doing this as...