Mr. Speaker, I am seeking unanimous consent to return to Item 5, oral questions.

Unanimous consent has been requested to return to Item 5, oral questions. Are there any nays? There are no nays. Proceed, Mr. Gargan.

Mr. Speaker, on Thursday the Minister responsible for the Workers' Compensation Board responded with regard to the definition of "principally engaged" and has indicated that he will be presenting in the House, early this week, a comprehensive statement on the background to the hunters' and trappers' coverage. I would like to ask the Minister if he is prepared to do it and when he will be doing it this week.

Minister responsible for the Workers' Compensation Board, Mr. Patterson.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This has taken a little longer than I expected because it involves co-ordination with the Minister of Renewable Resources and his department. But I would like to assure the honourable Member that we are working hard on that, and I expect to be able to make that comprehensive statement tomorrow or the next day at the latest.

Oral questions. Mr. Dent.

Madam Government Leader.

Mr. Speaker, not to sound facetious or anything, it is a document and a paper which we work from. There are many recommendations in there that make a lot of common sense. This government is being pressured from a lot of avenues, that we are running a government that is very luxurious, that the government is not consolidating its efforts to provide more streamlined service so people can access the government. So it is a working document.

It was commissioned to take a look at those areas that people have presented long-outstanding concerns about, and it has made some fairly significant recommendations, some good ones, and we are using it as a working document so that we can plan how we are going to operate as a government.

It is not a document set in stone, but it is a document that was requested to respond to the many concerns and issues that were brought forward over the years in terms of how we operate as a government.

Oral questions. Mr. Arvaluk.

Could I ask honourable Members if they

could try to keep the preamble as short and succinct as possible. Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation, Mr. Morin.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Any change to the legislation will be brought forward in this House, and all Members will have a chance to debate it and understand it. I think that should satisfy the Member.

Oral questions. Mr. Koe.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Now that the government has a working report, a question to the Government Leader. Has the government established a committee to develop the strategy for implementing the recommendations of the Beatty report?

Madam Government Leader.

Mr. Speaker, we have an internal working committee to attempt to put the policy together. But in terms of the whole strategy on the implementation, we have not done that yet.

Supplementary, Mr. Koe.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Since I was one of the Members who was chosen to work on the strategy for implementing the recommendations, when will we start working?

Madam Government Leader.

Mr. Speaker, I believe that as we are sitting in the Legislative Assembly there are a lot of tasks we have, and as soon as I table the implementation plan, I hope before the session recesses, we will have our structure put together. We have not determined how best that can work, and I would like to sit down with the three Members that have been put forward as people who are interested in taking on this very huge task. It is a fact that I do not have the implementation plan, but I expect before the session is over we would sit down and discuss the best way of setting up a committee that would be functional and would be able to accommodate the working group. So, Mr. Speaker, I apologize; but I just have not gotten down to that. But I would expect that we would have to have that concluded by the time the session concludes here. Thank you.

Oral questions. Before we proceed, I would like to welcome Mr. Gary Bohnet to the Legislative Assembly. Mr. Bohnet, as we know, is the President of the Metis Nation.

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Oral questions.

Item 6, written questions.

Item 7, returns to written questions.

Item 8, replies to Opening Address. Item 9, petitions. Mr. Pudluk.

Mr. Speaker, at this time I would like to table Petition 1-12(2), from Grise Fiord, with 35 signatures, concerning the lack of satisfaction with nursing in Grise Fiord.

Thank you, Mr. Pudluk. Petitions.

Item 10, reports of standing and special committees.

Item 11, reports of committees on the review of bills. Item 12, tabling of documents. Mr. Pudluk.