Thank you. I will recognize Mr. Flynn, legislative counsel.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The regulating of airports is a federal concern. The question that you are raising, sir, is perhaps one not easily addressed in terms of municipal legislation which, of course, doesn't really deal with...

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Thank you.

Thank you. Bill 11, An Act to Amend the Hamlets Act. Mr. Arvaluk, to the act.

Mr. Chairman, I recognize that we've been dealing with that for a long time now. The liquor regulations are not easy to deal with under the municipal acts. Next week we are going to deal with Transport and they will say exactly the same thing. So, when we are dealing with the Liquor Act sometime in this order paper, we'll be dealing with that too and they will say the same thing.

Is there anything the three departments can do so it will become easier to incorporate. At least a cooperative amendment so that it applies or complements the acts, rather than preventing the combining of the acts which leads to the lack of authority of one over another act, department or regulation?

Thank you. I don't know if you are speaking to the review of Bill 11, An Act to Amend the Hamlets Act. We are not speaking to the Justice department, so I'm wondering...If you're persistent, Mr. Arvaluk, on the Liquor Act I'm going to have to rule you out of order because we are dealing with the Hamlets Act. This is a separate issue.

A dry community becomes a dry community through a plebiscite, not through a municipal act. Madam Minister.

I was going to say to Mr. Arvaluk, that he mentioned that the municipality of Coral Harbour had a request to extend their boundary. I just want to let him know that I do support the process for extending the municipal boundary for that community. Perhaps if the council can include the airport inside the boundary, then the community would have...Perhaps a request through the Liquor Act would be able to handle what Mr. Arvaluk is talking about.

Perhaps we should bring the Minister of Justice to the witness table. Just kidding. Mr. Arvaluk.

A final question, Mr. Chairman. Then there is a provision in this act allowing the Minister to make regulations giving permission or provision for the by-law to include -- or at least a liquor regulation to include -- search and seizure of. Can this be done?

I guess my concern here is section 55(2). You have an airport, airplanes and facilities for them. I'm interested if the prohibition regulation can include what Coral Harbour has been asking about. It's not only Coral Harbour, there are other communities, too. Pangnirtung has exactly the same problem. They cannot actually go in there because of a question of legality.

Thank you. Point of order, Mr. Zoe.

Point Of Order

Thank you. Thank you. Before I enquire what Mr. Arvaluk was asking, we'll deal with that tomorrow morning at 10:00. That would be the time to ask. Bill 11, An Act to Amend the Hamlets Act. Clause by clause.

Clause By Clause

Clause 1.

Agreed.

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Thank you. Clause 2.

Agreed.

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Thank you. Clause 3.

Agreed.

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Thank you. Mr. Gargan.

When you refer to...Could you just give me some geographical definitions of what is meant by Commissioner's land? If we're talking about Commissioner's land, we're talking about lands outside of municipalities. Am I correct? And that means all lands, with the exception of fee-simple lands.

Thank you. I believe we have a municipal Commissioner of crown land. Madam Minister.

Mr. Chairman, I'll let Mr. Ashton respond to that.

Mr. Ashton.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The term "Commissioner's land" is meant to apply to those lands where the federal government has transferred the administration and control from the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs to the Commissioner. Not transferred the ownership, but the administration.

Those lands are primarily found inside the municipalities. There is some Commissioner's land outside of some municipalities where there is a bit of a buffer zone. But generally speaking, once you get outside the municipal boundary, there is very little Commissioner's land.

Thank you. Bill 4. Mr. Gargan.

Do you have any information on where those buffer zones...very little areas but...Which areas are outside the municipalities? We don't have them. I'd appreciate having them.