Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to advise the honourable Member, firstly, so that it's clear for Members, I believe in the past two years our priority for legislation in this House was the issue of the new Mine Health and Safety Act and the whole issue of the regulations, and also the matter of the liquor law review. I say thank you to my colleagues for the support they have given me in that. I do want to say that the labour standards legislation is now one of our top priorities. It has to be, in my view. Certainly, from having discussions with my colleagues, it is one of those pieces of legislation that is long overdue for amendment.

I don't have a problem with the suggestion that is being made by the honourable Member with regard to a group of individuals being assigned a task in the business and labour area. I do want to say, though, that there are a few other components that are important: one, representation from Nunavut; two, the representation from the aboriginal community.

I do want to say that we're now looking at, after having spoken to the Premier, having the group look at the documentation and the work that was conducted for the work to be done by the workplace commission had it been established, which it wasn't.

The other component that would come out of these discussions should be a strategy, an approach, a transition process that has been requested on this whole labour issue. I will advise the honourable Member that we are developing an approach for looking at the possibility of a meeting in May or June, depending on the agenda and the issues. I will speak directly, Mr. Speaker, to the representatives of labour, the NWT Chamber of Commerce, along with representation from Nunavut businesses and the aboriginal groups. We intend to fund it from within. Our expected costs are much more than the honourable Member would have wanted, but it's my view that we have to spend the money in order for this group to get together to give us some sense of where we have to go. So we are going to approach it and we are looking at that agenda.

In fact, Mr. Speaker, what I will do is once we've laid the agenda out, I will advise the honourable Members, through written communication, of the agenda items and the approaches. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.