Thank you, Mr. Speaker. First of all, I would like to thank the Government Leader for answering my earlier question on working out some of the problems with the Ministers, but there is one area that has been a concern to me, and it has to do with the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs. The communities in my region of Jean Marie River, Nahanni Butte, Trout Lake and Wrigley are governed by chiefs and band councils, and they are not under the MACA system. I feel that these communities are being penalized and kind of bribed by MACA to go onto the MACA system. I say that because they have very old equipment, like 1972 type equipment, that is broken down most of the time and being constantly repaired. They have no roads in Trout Lake or Nahanni Butte, and in Wrigley as well there were attempts by MACA to try to get them into the MACA system.

I want to ask the Minister if it is the practice of this government to penalize communities because they are governed by chiefs and band councils. Mahsi.