Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we are always aware of the difficulty people have in accessing caribou meat, where they depend on it. The most immediate thing we can do in the short term, of course, is to ensure that our income support offices are aware of the situation, are able to take that into consideration when they make allocations to people. Mr. Speaker, I know that it is difficult. It is more than just an income issue. It is also an issue of wanting to have the wild meat that people have a desire for. Mr. Speaker, over time we will work it out, but in the short term, in...

Mr. Speaker, I will certainly do that. I’m not sure of the exact wording we’ll use, but we will do it and make the point that we don’t have adequate funding. As I mentioned in the sessional statement, the current situation just simply is not sustainable and we have to get that message to the federal government, whether it’s through reinstating this money or a combination of this plus, as I say, the resource revenues. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I agree with the Member; all of us were offended by having these cuts just announced. The federal government told us that this was treated like a budget, that it was all done in secret, and we weren’t the only jurisdiction. All jurisdictions across Canada were not given any information on it. It was a surprise to everybody the day it happened.

Mr. Speaker, since that time we have been trying to get clarification on all of the different budget cuts and some of it we still don’t know because there’s no detail when it comes to things like cutting departmental...

Mr. Speaker, yes, that is still our intention to have that unit delivered this fall; hopefully in November.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We're very aware of some of these issues that appear in some communities, and certainly the issues in Liard have been brought to our attention. Mr. Speaker, there's a couple of things we want to do. One of them, of course, is to give the local leaders in the community more authority to be able to determine how the houses are to be allocated, the sequence for repairing, for replacing and so on. Mr. Speaker, I think it doesn't matter if it's a teacher's house or a house for someone else who's in need of accommodation. We need to have the maximum amount of input from...

If all we're getting is a little bit of corporate tax, a little bit of property tax and some payroll tax, and a lot of people may be getting jobs, that is still not enough. We know there's resource revenues that the federal government will benefit from on this project for a long, long time, and we need to get that share. I have stayed adamant with the federal government that any support for these kind of projects has to be tied to a fair share for us. The Prime Minister, in fact, has said that; now he's got to act on it.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have a copy of the presentation that was made; we've seen some media reports on it. We're doing a review of it now to try to figure out how they arrived at the numbers they have. If it is $17 billion profit, I agree with the Member, that is a lot of profit. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I will commit to making a copy of the letters that I’m sending both to Minister Prentice and to Minister Harper available to the Members. Mr. Speaker, Ottawa’s a long ways away and they sometimes just don’t understand that the situation is different for us. I find it frustrating when I hear the Minister of DIAND talking about the per capita amounts that Ottawa gives us at $17,000 compared to $8000 in Newfoundland, as if our costs were the same across the country. We know, and I’m sure that he knows very well, that our costs are much different here given our big geography, the...

Mr. Speaker, the responsibility for the discussion paper and whistle-blower legislation rests with the Minister of Human Resources, so, Mr. Speaker, I'd ask that be referred to him.

Mr. Speaker, certainly one way of dealing with the shortage of housing for teachers and for other staff is to bring in more market housing. We have two units, I think, in Fort Liard. We're prepared to bring more market housing units in if there's demand for it. In the meantime, Mr. Speaker, what we would like to see would be to have, in the community, a housing board and we're working on that with the local leadership. If there's a housing board and teachers need temporary accommodation when they first arrive in a community, then we would like to work that through the local leaderships so...