Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Standing Committee on Governance and Economic Development met on January 18, 2006, to review Bill 14, Public Airports Act. The committee received a written submission from Mr. James Pokiak of Tuktoyaktuk, asking that the rules restricting public access to the apron be made less restrictive in smaller communities. The committee also received a letter from the Tuktoyaktuk Community Corporation in support of Mr. Pokiak’s submission.

Mr. Pokiak gave the examples of family members needing to unload coffins and people wanting to access aircraft that they have chartered...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Tu Nedhe, that Committee Report 6-15(4) be received by the Assembly and moved into Committee of the Whole. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We will certainly look forward to that report and the folks in Hay River mostly affected by it. Five positions were going to be by attrition. I understand that only one of those positions has actually been vacated. But the folks who were most affected by this were the casual staff who were called in on a frequent basis to monitor the remand unit. I understand that a number of them are still in Hay River. They would be very interested in hearing the response. When the report comes out and it proves that there were no $400,000 cost savings, what measure will the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Finance today in follow-up to his budget address. Mr. Speaker, whenever we talk about the fiscal situation in our government, whenever we talk about resource revenue sharing, we talk about royalties and devolution. As a territorial government, this can never be done in the absence of talking about the aspirations and the cooperation of aboriginal governments in the Northwest Territories, as well. I know that the budget address was somewhat abbreviated today, but I noticed almost right away -- and I actually mentioned to my...

Point of order, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. To the end that we want to see progress on this file, can we do more? Is there something new or different? Is there anything new we can add to the process that will assure success on this area? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. What are the plans that are on the agenda at this time on the part of this government to ensure that, when we do go, that deal that we want to make is not going to be anything less than what the aboriginal governments are looking for as well, and, therefore, not derailed at some future time because we did not have buy in? What’s the agenda? Thank you.