Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I received a fax from Fort Simpson this morning. I have forwarded it to the department to investigate this new system Mr. Antoine was speaking about.

We have also received some information from a company called Northern Communications, Mr. Pook, I have met with them and I have instructed the department to meet with them to explore those opportunities as well.

I met with NorthwesTel today and I haven't had a chance to brief Members on it, so I will do that now. I met with four people and we were looking at negotiating with them for supplying the actual dish into the communities, fax machines, computer services for the schools, everything that is needed for communications for advanced education, as well as fax and individual telephones. We are negotiating with them and we should be finished negotiations no later than June. We are negotiating with the attempt to install telephone services into Colville Lake, Trout Lake and Snare Lake this summer; and Nahanni Butte, Kakisa, and Jean Marie River next year.

That is what we are negotiating right now with NorthwesTel. So far we are finding that the negotiations are going very well. I will keep Members up to date if anything evolves from that.