Mr. Chairman, I appreciate Mr. Todd's comments, and I may be getting into Mr. Kakfwi's area, and if I am, I apologize. When we get into community transfer, I think we said at the very beginning: 1) What are we prepared to transfer? 2) How are we prepared to transfer it? 3) Will those communities be ready to receive that transfer? 4) If they are not, how will we bring them up to speed? 5) What is the point of transferring responsibility to a community if they do not have the funds to operate the program?
I realize that Mr. Todd is saying that it has been done in the past, but I think when we started out with this exercise in this book, those five principles are what we first looked at. There is no point in spinning our wheels and giving something to somebody if they cannot operate it, or they cannot afford it and we eventually get it back. Ultimately, the people of the Northwest Territories, no matter who is delivering the program to them, are the responsibility of this Legislative Assembly. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.