Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The department has no immediate plans to pave the highway from Sandy Lake to Fort Smith. However, a pavement overlay on the section of Highway No. 5 from kilometre 0 to 60 is scheduled for 1993, with the supporting gravel haul and crushing commencing in the winter of 1992.

Mrs. Marie-Jewell.

Recognizing that I am not totally familiar with the kilometre type of expression that the department uses, I would like the Minister to clarify to me what point is kilometre 0 to 60.

Minister of Transportation.

I will be very happy to provide the Member with a map with detailed information.

Mr. Pudlat.

(Translation) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Transportation about the airstrip in Lake Harbour. I would like to add further to my question regarding the lighting addition to our airstrip. They have a lot of problems when they try and land during the night when there is no light. I just wanted to make that supplementary to the Minister of Transportation. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Allooloo.

I think what the Member referred to was adding a question to his question that was directed to me earlier in this session. Once I get all the information put together I will respond to the two questions. Thank you.

The question is taken as notice. Oral questions. Ms. Mike.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It was brought to my attention by one of the post-secondary students from my region that the NWT program for living allowance for a single student is $522.86 and the DIAND program for a single student is $675 a month; and that DIAND program figure is from 1989 -- it is not even up to date. I would like to know, since this government usually likes to keep up with the Indian and Northern Affairs' figures, why the NWT program is a lot lower than DIAND's.

Minister of Education.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Member is correct that our living allowance given to a student is a little bit lower than that of the Indian and Northern Affairs program; but I would like to point out that even though the living allowance we provide to students is lower, we have other programs that the federal government does not provide, such as a housing allowance, and emergency child care. If the students have children, we provide them with assistance for child care and a living allowance which the federal government does not provide. Our program, in total, is quite a bit richer than that of the federal government. Thank you.

Oral questions. Supplementary, Ms. Mike.

Mr. Speaker, would the Minister of Education provide the figures for the other programs that DIAND does not offer?

Minister of Education.

Thank you. Yes, I could provide detailed information, including tuition fees, books, travel, start-up allowance, living allowance, whether they have one, two or three dependants, child care and other additional costs that our government provides for that are not available through federal government programs. I will provide that detailed information to the Member as soon as we can put it together. Thank you.

Oral questions. Mrs. Marie-Jewell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Minister of Personnel. My colleague, the honourable Member for Kitikmeot, earlier asked the Minister if he would be willing to develop a policy on hiring non-Canadians for management positions. The Minister of Personnel indicated that he would consider doing this. I would like to know why he would want to consider developing a policy for hiring non-Canadians for management positions when we have an affirmative action policy in place. Thank you.

Minister of Personnel, Mr. Kakfwi.

Oral questions. Mrs. Marie-Jewell, supplementary.

It is unfortunate that the honourable Member for Kitikmeot is not in the House at this moment, but I know that is what the question was, and as a result the Member for Kitikmeot was somewhat, not confused, but he could not understand why the Minister would develop such a thing. However, recognizing his response, I will review Hansard, and I will pursue the question at hand in the days to come. Thank you.

Oral questions. Mr. Koe.