Thank you, Mr. Chairman. One area that I wanted to comment on, is the employee benefits. Having been an employee of this government, I have an idea as to what employees do receive, in fact, as an employee, I made several comments regarding the benefits that I received, as an employee of the G.N.W.T. I was glad to hear the Minister commenting on the fact that there will be equalization of benefits for people who are hired from the north, because I felt as an employee, the value received by an aboriginal person, or someone who was born and raised in a certain community, was not the same value of vacation travel benefits, as those employees who were hired from the south.

I know this is an incentive to bring people up north, good qualified people to come up north. I still did not see where justice was being done for employees who were hired in the north. Especially when we talk about hiring northern people, and especially when we priorize aboriginal hire in our system.

The other area in which I got to know the collective agreement quite well, was when I made a grievance regarding the travel of employees. There is one certain clause of the agreement which says that you are not able to take, or apply for special leave, unless it has something to do with the weather. If you are unable to get back to your community due to weather, after being on vacation, if you flew in, that was fine, then you were able to receive that special day. However, if you are coming from out on the land, and coming in from vacation, and you are stuck because of weather, you are not able to get that benefit, you do not get that special day.

I went through that, I grieved it through the union, and it went all the way to the Commissioner, and then it was turned down. Areas like that, when you have things like that, that affects people hired in the north, then there is a different scale used for people who are hired from the south, and people who were hired from the north. What I wanted to see, was that there was the same kind of benefits given to different people.

That is just one area that I wanted to raise. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.