Yes, Madam Speaker, I would. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 5, oral questions. The honourable Member for Yellowknife South, Mr. Whitford.

Thank you. Minister of WCB, Mr. Todd.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. We all regret the resignation of Mr. Bourque. He was an outstanding chairman with respect to appeals. I did appoint Mr. Don McNenly, who is a 25 or 26 year northern veteran, to replace Mr. Bourque. He has significant employer/employee experience. We are proceeding on schedule as previously committed. That is that we're trying to endeavour to move on these appeals by taking the next six months to fast-track as many of them as we can. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 5, oral questions. The honourable Member for Yellowknife North, Mr. Ballantyne.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. My question is to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Nerysoo. I would like to thank the Minister for supporting the transfer of Sir John Franklin High School to school district No. 1 in Yellowknife. The transfer will complete the unification of the Kindergarten to grade 12 system under the control of the elected Yellowknife board. It will certainly

provide a stronger base to strengthen the education system in Yellowknife. My question to the Minister is, will the Minister inform this House as to when this transfer will be completed?

Thank you. Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Nerysoo.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. It is our intention to, hopefully, have the transfer completed by July 1, 1994.

Thank you. Item 5, oral questions. The honourable Member for Iqaluit, Mr. Patterson.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. This is directed to the Minister of Personnel. This is regarding the statement made today. Specifically, where will the 16 additional units, approved by the Financial Management Board in July of last year, be located? Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of Personnel, Ms. Mike.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I cannot recall all of the communities. I will take the question as notice. The department is working on them right now. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 5, oral questions. The honourable Member for Inuvik, Mr. Koe.

Mahsi, Madam Speaker. I have a question for the Minister responsible for the Science Institute. Several sessions ago, the Premier announced that the Northwest Territories Science Institute headquarters was to be decentralized from Yellowknife to Inuvik and Igloolik. Subsequently, the Minister responsible for the Science Institute, and also responsible for Education, Culture and Employment, announced a review is under way investigating the feasibility of amalgamating the Science Institute with Arctic College. My question to the Minister is what is the status of the review of the amalgamation of the Science Institute with Arctic College?

Thank you. Minister responsible for the Science Institute of the NWT, Mr. Nerysoo.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. The process, when I undertook the responsibility as Minister, was to review the decision that had been made, which was the idea of the amalgamation of Arctic College and the Science Institute. That decision has been supported by Cabinet. It will be part of the college system. We will establish a head office for the western institute in Inuvik and an eastern institute office in Iqaluit. There will be no continuation of a board separately, rather it will be part of the Arctic College. The amalgamation is expected to be completed by July 1, 1994.

Thank you. Item 5, oral questions. The honourable Member for Iqaluit, Mr. Patterson.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, I am quite curious about the process outlined by the Minister of Personnel for the second round of housing sales. As I understand it, Madam Speaker, all employees were given a second chance to purchase, by a recent circular, and they have until this week to express an interest, where upon an invitation to purchase will be sent to the employees by DPW. My question to the Minister of Personnel is, whose statement refers to a detailed community assessment to assess surplus, is the community assessment process going to take place after the process of the current round of purchases, offers and invitations? Or, is it going to take place before those offers and purchases are finalized? Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of Personnel, Ms. Mike.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. It will occur after the finalization of offers to the staff. Thank you.

Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Patterson.

With greatest respect to the Minister, Madam Speaker, if the purpose of the community assessment is to determine whether there is a surplus of staff housing in a community -- in other words, whether there are some surplus houses that can be safely disposed of without jeopardizing the government's program delivery capability -- wouldn't a correct time to do a community assessment be before you sell off the houses, rather than after you have already made offers and acceptances? Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of Personnel, Ms. Mike.