Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Enuaraq.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Minister and his officials convey their support for these licence applications to the federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans? Thank you.

Mr. Kakfwi.

Thank you. Item 6, oral questions. Mr. Krutko.

Minister of Transportation, Mr. Antoine.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'll have to take this question as notice since there is some detail that I'll have to get the department to come up with. I'll reply to the Member after I get it. Thank you.

Thank you. The question has been taken as notice. Item 6, oral questions. Mr. Erasmus.

Minister of Personnel, Mr. Morin.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Each department will be recruiting its own students Linder the guidelines that are put forward by this government. Personnel will be providing all departments with the copies of the applications it has received. Education will also be playing a coordinated role on the whole issue of hiring our students who come back from southern institutions or post-secondary institutions. Hopefully, we can try our best to supply jobs for all our students this summer. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 6, oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Erasmus.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I understood that this initiative to amalgamate Personnel into the other departments was going to save time, energy and money. If each department is going to have to be doing their own personnel recruitment, it seems to me that there are going to be more people doing this than before. Could the Minister explain to me how this is going to save time and money by doing it this way?

Mr. Morin.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is my understanding that every department already has a basic function of hiring personnel in their department, or employee relationship-type function in their department already. It is also my understanding that the departments will not get any new money for doing the same job that they are already doing; they will do it within their existing funds. What is very important to understand is that the managers of these departments will have the guidelines issued by this government as well as the policies issued by this government of what they will have to follow. It will allow the managers to manage and also be held accountable. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Item 6, oral questions. Mr. Ootes.

Mr. Morin.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. When you look at all 17 deputies that this government has and you look at what they're capable of doing and where they would best fit, it's my job as the Premier of this government to assign those deputies their jobs. I've done that and I've looked at all functions that need to be carried out by this government. I've put the right people in the right places, I feel, with consultation with my Cabinet colleagues, to do that job. As far as the revolving door of the Housing Corporation is concerned, I don't think that door has revolved that much. There have been people put there to do a job. They've done their job very, very well, and I'm very pleased with the job they have done while they were there. We do have a new president in place as of Monday, and I feel that lie will be able to accomplish the direction that this government gives. Through the Minister to that deputy, they'll be able to accomplish the direction that we give and they'll be able to carry it out.

As far as continuity is concerned, all deputies meet weekly if not bi-weekly. They discuss issues of this government. The outgoing president has fully briefed the incoming president, so the direction will continue in the way we're going. Those people are in place to make sure it happens. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 6, oral questions. Just to remind the Members, I know that Members have been wanting to ask a second question, but I'm allowing all the Members who haven't asked questions to ask questions first, then go back to the people who want to ask more questions. Mr. Barnabas.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Minister of Finance. Since the Minister's major announcement yesterday, my constituents have been calling me. We're trying hard to figure out the actual effects of the cuts to wages and benefits which were announced. They're not sure how changes will affect how much more income tax they will have to pay. I would like to ask the Minister if he and his officials have done an analysis to figure out how these changes would affect the larger as well as the smaller families, the gross and net income of typical employees in the various regions of the Northwest Territories. Thank you.

Minister of Finance, Mr. Todd.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have done those analysis. As I said yesterday, we have rolled in the settlement allowance, vacation travel benefit, etcetera, and taken the reduction Out of there. The FMBS will be discussing with individual employees or groups of employees what the net effect on their pay cheque and on their annual income is in the days and weeks ahead, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.