Yes, Mr. Chairman, thank you. I was intending to continue to reply to the questions. I think I was just starting on part seven of the written question on the service contracts. I am not sure if I finished answering number six. In answer to number six, I did indicate that there are no prescribed organizations because prescribed is prescription by regulation and there are no regulations under the Official Languages Act yet. It is something that I have been pressing the government to develop and have offered to assist with this. Because there were no prescribed organizations, I chose to meet with as many groups as possible and I did provide the Members with a list of those organizations in the interim report that they have.

There are many other organizations that we have contacted by telephone. As I mentioned, we were doing telephone surveys all summer so we were contacting hamlet offices, C.E.C.s, daycares, and all sorts of different organizations to gather information from them. I do not have all of that information compiled yet, because there is a lot of information there. I do not know the exact dates, and it would be a lot of information to provide the House.

However, if there are further questions with regard to number six on dates, duration and location of all the meetings which I have had, I would have to do quite a bit more research to compile all of that. I did provide the Members with a list of the organizations that I have met with personally. That does not include any of the organizations that we have contacted by telephone survey, or any of the individuals we have contacted by community surveys.

I indicated that there are about 1,200 individual community surveys that we have done, as well as a survey of all government employees. We have about 1,300 of those back. If that suffices to answer number six, I will go on to number seven.

In response to number seven, the number of service contracts so far from my office is five. One of them is for legal counsel with Carol Roberts. She is originally from Hay River. I did advertise for legal counsel and had a number of bids. I selected her on an interim basis, because one of the other firms, which is located in Yellowknife, was actually my first choice. At that moment, they had a conflict of interest because they were working for someone who had brought a case to me that they wanted me to get involved in. This lawyer stated that he could not be involved as counsel for my office because he was already involved in this case. That case lasted about three months. It was a case that was brought to me shortly after I started, and it was with regard to whether I could be involved in a court case. Carol Roberts provided legal counsel and is just finishing up on some things that we have dealt with over the year. There is a contract now with John Bayly and Associates for legal counsel. The contract for Carol Roberts was originally $10,000 and we have added about $2,500 to that. It will be determined by the final billing.

We had a contract with Riki Sato. She developed the questionnaires that we sent out to the communities and the government employees, and also did an initial policy search of all the government departments, calling all of them and asking them what policies they had in place for the implementation of the Official Languages Act in each department. That contracted lasted about six weeks and it was $5,000.

Benoit Boutin, who is here and I introduced him yesterday, is currently working on a contract which will be ending shortly. It was for about three months, it is $7,000. The purpose of that contract is to develop the logo, letterhead, business card, brochure, posters, and other information that is required as a public information package in all the languages. I gave some Members a copy of the draft brochure yesterday. It is just about finalized now, and shortly it will be translated into all of the languages and circulated. It contains a summary of the Official Languages Act, because I have been asked numerous times for the Official Languages Act in various languages. As the government is not currently providing it, I decided to do a summary of the act and have the brochure translated into all of the languages so that we can get the information out to people as soon as possible.

The other contract that we have is a service contract with Xerox, for the rental of the xerox machine and that is $20,000 a year. Those are the contracts from my office.

There are a couple of issues to address with the last question. One is under section 22.1. I will begin by reading that section and then I will make some comments before I report on it.

Section 22.1 says, "if after carrying out an investigation under this act, the Languages Commissioner is of the opinion that any matter should be referred to the government institution concerned for consideration or any necessary action, the Languages Commissioner shall report that opinion and the reasons for it to the Government Leader and the deputy minister or other administrative head of the institution concerned."

Generally, I have understood that to mean, when I finish an investigation, if there were recommendations that I would make to a department...