Mr. Speaker, I would like to say that the study has been completed but to restate once again, that when we took over the responsibility for the Power Corporation, each community had different rates. At this point in time, the study is still going on. It is before the Public Utilities Board, and we anticipate by late this fall, the study will be complete, and that there will be some assessment on what we can do in terms of new rate structures. It is not complete at this time. Thank you.

Thank you. I would like to recognize in the gallery, Russian experts and lecturers. The group of Russian experts have been visiting the Northwest Territories under the current program of Scientific and Technical Corporation between Russia and Canada, and the Arctic and the north. The Russian delegation will consist of the following: I have a difficult time announcing these names, the Deputy Minister for Culture and Construction; and the President of the Association for Economic Corporation; and Chief Architects, State Project Institute in Yakutsk. Please rise.

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Welcome to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Item 5, oral questions. Mr. Gargan.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, many years ago I asked whether or not there may be an opportunity to implement a new police force, and I referred on many occasions to Alaska. Alaska has public safety officers, or peace officers. They have an arrangement where there are no R.C.M.P., the local people chose people to do that.

This morning, on the radio, Mr. Speaker, the superintendent of the R.C.M.P. said that they are going to start training people as reserve or R.C.M.P. reserves. They are going to train them to handle little things, where there are no R.C.M.P. and even where there are R.C.M.P. They would train them. I would like to ask the Minister of Justice, under the aboriginal people and justice administration discussion paper done by the Minister of Justice, Kim Campbell, it does say in there that pilot projects will be made with territorial and aboriginal communities to test community based approaches of policing, reserve, crime prevention, adjudication, and dispute resolution corrections and release.

I would like to ask whether or not, that as a result of this report, or discussion paper, that the R.C.M.P. are moving in that direction.

Thank you. Mr. Kakfwi.

Thank you. Item 5, oral questions. Mr. Ningark.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Transportation. Seeing as winter is just around the corner, Mr. Speaker, having lived many winters in the past, knowing that winters are very cold, being aware that every home in Pelly Bay is heated by P50 heating fuel, I recognize the government has drastically cut some of its government services to the public. My question, Mr. Speaker, is how much heating fuel has been brought to my community of Pelly Bay by ship, which has been neglected in the past?

Thank you. Mr. Whitford.

Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Ningark.

Supplementary, Mr. Speaker. Would the Minister be sure the next delivery will have a little more than 95 gallons of fuel? Thank you.

Thank you. Mr. Whitford.

Thank you. Item 5, oral questions. Mr. Dent.

Thank you. Mr. Pollard.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the reason for this tariff was that it was identified to us by the Department of Personnel that if two employees of government, one of the federal government, and one of the territorial government, lived in similar sized houses adjacent to one another in the same community, and they were both transferred on the same day, the moving company would come and pick up the federal employee at one rate, and move his or her effects to their next destination, and then come back and pick up the territorial government employee, and the rates were substantially more. Now, I believe the Department of Personnel investigated this with other jurisdictions, and suggested to the Financial Management Board that there seemed to be some difference in the rates that we were being charged, and the federal government was being charged. There was an examination. I am not able to tell the Member if there were

consultations with the moving industry prior to, but certainly the thing was examined, and the moving industry has been consulted since the report has been adopted. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Dent.

Thank you. Mr. Pollard.

Mr. Speaker, I understand that they have responded, but they have not responded to me, sir, they may have responded to the Department of Personnel, so I would defer to the Department of Personnel.

Thank you. Before we go any further in Item 5, the Member for Mackenzie Delta who was asking for a legal opinion, and I would like to indicate now you can get the legal opinion, but not on the ruling. Now Legal Counsel is available. Mr. Nerysoo.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I will take your advice, and, in fact, ask for a legal opinion, but rather than do it here, I will take the opportunity to have the legal advisor provide me with a detailed, written legal summary. Thank you.

Thank you. We will go back to Item 5. Supplementary, Mr. Dent.