My last return, Mr. Speaker, is to a question asked by the honourable Member for North Slave, and it deals with social assistance payments to persons in southern Canada. Payments are made out of the social assistance program to persons living outside of the Northwest Territories, but they include:

1) Comfort allowance and basic need support to Northwest Territories residents who are living in institutions in the provinces.

2) Assistance to transients who come to the Northwest Territories and who are assessed to be in need. Our policy allows limited assistance for up to three days and transportation costs out, that is south, for these transient individuals who are found to be in need.

3) The last category is the basic needs assistance for NWT residents who leave the Territories and do not qualify for provincial assistance. Our policy allows those who qualify under such circumstances to receive assistance for up to six months. As an example, a student leaves the NWT for training and qualifies for assistance as an NWT resident.

In 1990-91 the 156 cases assisted out of the Territories included the dependants of recipients. The actual number of individuals was more like 80. The amount expended out of the Territories for any of those three categories was $27,834. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.