Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to make a few comments in response to the honourable Member for Iqaluit when he said he was not consulted and that he would like to go home and consult. If I read the reports and heard the reports properly during the election and prior to the election, this was an issue in just about everyone's campaign. It was an issue throughout the Territories during the election. I think it was the Member himself who expressed the loudest concerns about a particular department -- the Department of Social Services. It was the Member himself who expressed very sincere interest in becoming the Minister of that very department so that he could fix up those concerns. It was mentioned I did not consult him. I did consult through the caucus we had with all the Members that were there. I talked about this issue which was an item of debate in our caucus. I did mention at that time that I will be bringing something forward to this Assembly and I gave proper notice on Monday that this motion will be coming up. The Member had a week

and a half, similar to all other Members, to talk to me on this issue.

So I do not think that statement is fair, but I do not think it was up to me to go to each individual Member. I went to as many as I could and talked to as many as I could. The ones who were interested came to me and we talked. These are just some comments in rebuttal to the Minister in terms of what is in the terms of reference. I am sure the Member knows my prior history so there may be a slight slant of some bureaucracy. I spent 21 years in there. Maybe my writing is not perfect, but I try. I tried to express and develop some vision. It has been cited and stated a couple of times already. We know what the problems are out there. Dennis, I think your community is one that has been through this. You already have a community that is looking after some aspects of program delivery.

The other reason both departments are in there is that it is a major focus of the Beatty Report. This government has already announced that it intends to amalgamate both departments. So therefore I included, and it was expressed by several Members to do this, to include both because they are related issues. So this is why the terms of reference are drafted in the manner they are. There is one word, that I think stands out in the terms of reference and it is "philosophies," philosophies of the Government of the Northwest Territories, and if you broaden that it should hopefully give us some forward thinking and maybe develop some vision. Thank you.