Mr. Speaker, the honourable Member will appreciate that the Crown office does not report to me and therefore I am not briefed on the situation. However, I will, through my department, attempt to find out the situation, and I will report back to the House, as quickly as I can, the answer to the Member's question.

Did you take the question as notice, Mr. Patterson? The question was taken as notice. Oral questions. Mr. Nerysoo.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. A question to the Government Leader. In responding to a number of questions regarding the matter of Strength at Two Levels, you indicated that there were a number of additional documents and reports considered in developing the position that was put forward by the government. I am asking if the Government Leader could make available those particular documents to the Members of this House.

Ms. Cournoyea, Madam Government Leader.

Mr. Speaker, I will take that as notice and try to find out how much I can bring forward to the Member for his consideration.

The question is taken as notice. Oral questions. Mr. Gargan.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to direct my question to the Minister of Justice with regard to Personnel. I understand that the chief crown counsel is going to be leaving his post here in the NWT to take on a post in Ottawa regarding aboriginal justice. Is this correct?

Mr. Patterson. This is not within the Minister's direct responsibility, but if the Minister would like to respond to the best of his ability.

Mr. Speaker, I know that it is true that the chief crown counsel in the NWT will be leaving his present position next month. I am not precisely sure of the new responsibilities, but I think the Member is generally correct.

Oral questions. Mrs. Marie-Jewell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a question for the Minister of Justice. In December I asked the Minister of Justice the status of the family law review committee, and he indicated that once this report was compiled, that it would be presented to him and the Minister of Social Services. Can he indicate to this House whether this report has been presented to the Minister of Social Services and himself?

Minister of Justice, Mr. Patterson.

Mr. Speaker, as I said, I understand the report is being edited at this moment. Neither I nor the Minister of Social Services has seen it as of this day.

Oral questions. Supplementary, Mrs. Marie-Jewell.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to also advise the Minister that I had asked a written question in regard to it, and in the same reply in December he stated to me that he would provide me with a response to the written question. So when will the Minister provide the House with the response to the written question?

Mr. Patterson.

Mr. Speaker, you will correct me if my interpretation of the rules is wrong, but I understood that when a written question is responded to after the session is concluded, that the procedure is to send the response directly to the Member and it would not necessarily go to the House. Mr. Speaker, my best recollection is that I did a written response to that written question directly to the Member, in care of the Clerk. So if she has not received it, it is not because it was not sent.

My understanding of how we deal with written questions is that after a session has prorogued essentially the issue is dead and the Minister, as a courtesy, sends the response to the Member. Oral questions. Mrs. Marie-Jewell.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the Minister of Justice if he would consider providing this House with a reply to the written question given to him December 9th. Thank you.

Mr. Patterson.

Yes, I will do that, Mr. Speaker. It has been prepared, and it will be no problem to provide it to Members.

Oral questions. Mr. Zoe.

Mr. Ningark.