Thank you. Mr. Henry, third question.

Mr. Chairman, my final question again directed to both candidates for Premier; I would like them, each in tum, to project themselves forward four years and look back and tell me the two most important things that you have achieved in your term as Premier.

Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you. Mr. Morin.

Thank you. Four years from now, I hope we're all sitting here saying good-bye to each other, basically saying that we enjoyed working together, working together as a team and working together for the people of the Northwest Territories, and that we're also patting ourselves on the back saying that it was good that Nunavut happened on time, at the right time and it happened fairly smoothly. We also would be patting ourselves on the back saying we balanced the budget, we didn't go into a deficit. We managed to balance it not on the backs of the people, but we managed to balance it by good, new initiatives. And also we managed to create a lot of jobs in the Northwest Territories at the same time. Thank you.

Thank you. Mr. Steen, followed by Mr. Antoine. Mr. Steen.

Thank you. Mr. Morin.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As Members all know who previously worked with me in the past, I am a strong supporter of negotiated contracts and I will continue to be a strong supporter of negotiated contracts. To me, negotiated contracts are another way to say block funding. For example, the city of Yellowknife gets block funding to carry out its municipal affairs in the community, they have a big Yellowknife city department. The Hay River town council has block funding from this government and they have their own forces to do it. Aboriginal people in a small community, we'll block fund them wherever possible and they can carry out the work themselves. That's how I look at it.

There are three golden rules that I followed in the past four years' negotiating contracts: you have to have political peace; you have to have community support; you have to benefit northerners 100 per cent; and, you have to come in on budget. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you. Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you. Your second question, Mr. Steen.

Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you. Mr. Morin.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would meet with every new Cabinet Member and find out what their expertise is, what they've done in the past, what they want to do in the future and assign portfolios according to what their ability is. I wouldn't overload any one Cabinet Minister, I would want to spread the work out fairly; and look at where we can use their expertise to the best for this government and that's key. Thank you.

Thank you. Your third question, Mr. Steen.

Mr. Morin.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's no secret that transportation and the transportation infrastructure is very important. Once you have that, you have progress and you have other things that follow that. I would be quite willing to try to work with the federal government to ensure that we find funds for that, but also we do have some money existing in our own budgets to create work. I don't know if it makes a lot of sense to teach heavy equipment operators how to dig a hole and then fill it back in. Maybe we just look at the way we're spending money and use it as a positive thing so you can accomplish something.

That's a very big project that the Member is talking about and it would take many millions of dollars, so it is something that we would have to take a serious look at to see whether or not we can afford it. I don't have any complete answers to that, but it's something that we should look at because infrastructure for transportation is very key in the North. Thank you.

Mrs. Groenewegen.