Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the report will be available to the public in its entirety tomorrow morning. As I said to the Member, prior to that, it will be made available to Members of this Legislature either late this afternoon or first thing in the morning. Thank you.

Thank you. Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. O'Brien.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, can the Minister advise this House as to what terms of reference he instructed his deputy minister to follow while conducting this review?

Mr. Ng.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I do not have the specific terms of reference here verbatim. It is safe to say he was to review the comprehensiveness of the planned changes that both the Baffin Health Board and the Keewatin Regional Health Board were contemplating in shifting some of their contracted services to service their constituents, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Oral questions. Mr. Ootes.

Mr. Premier.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Devolution has been an ongoing file for the Government of the Northwest Territories. In the early part of the winter, we had meetings with our MP for the western Arctic, Ethel Blondin-Andrew and we started developing a strategy on devolution and the devolution of responsibilities from Ottawa. It made clear sense to us as a government that one of the first things we should proceed on was the devolution of federal employees that have responsibilities to things that are happening in the Northwest Territories. There are approximately one hundred positions. At that time, we started working with our MP and with the Ministers involved in developing a strategy, to talk to the federal government on transferring those people to the Northwest Territories so that we can at least gain the economics of them purchasing housing units, spending their money living in the north, where decisions that they make affect northerners. They should be living here.

After that, we did go into Caucus of the whole, where the whole 24 Members were present, and Mr. Kakfwi and I had made a presentation on devolution. We let Members know at that time that we were proceeding with this issue and this initiative. It was after that Mr. Ootes raised it in a Member's statement in the House, as well as made a motion in the House, to encourage us to continue moving ahead on this issue. This is one of the major issues we spoke of with Ms. Stewart this summer when we met with her on the whole issue of devolution. Mr. Kakfwi is putting together a plan so that we can present it to Minister Stewart, as well as get the assistance of our two MPs from Nunavut and the western Arctic, to work with us on this issue. Thank you.

Thank you. Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Ootes.

Mr. Morin

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am not about to go hold a gun at somebody's head in Ottawa and say give me that information. Let us get realistic here, Mr. Ootes. It takes two parties to negotiate. It takes two parties to come to an agreement. We are working with the federal government. We are working with the Indian Affairs to pursue this. We feel confident that we will pursue this so that it will benefit the north. We are moving on it at a fairly rapid pace. Whether or not Mr. Ootes thinks we are doing enough or not is irrelevant to me at this point, Mr. Speaker. What is relevant to me is that we approach it in a manner that will get results in the end, instead of blowing off a bunch of steam. Thank you.

Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Ootes.

Mr. Morin.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. You know the north in general, not only Mr. Ootes' riding, has unemployment. I have a lot in my constituency as well. Once again, I will say that we are going to approach this in a manner that is professional, and at this time I do not think that it is proper to write to the Prime Minister to ask him to catalogue the positions that are in DIAND for the Northwest Territories. We are dealing with it with the Minister responsible. As far as sitting back and doing nothing, we started talking about this issue, we started working on this issue before he even raised the issue in the House, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Thank you. Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Ootes.

Mr. Morin.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I stated earlier in the reply to Mr. Ootes' question about what we are doing as a government. Whether he sees it or not, that is completely up to him. Whether he hears it or not is completely up to him, but we are moving ahead. We are talking to the Minister of Indian Affairs. We are dealing with the issue. Mr. Kakfwi is going to deal with the Minister of Indian Affairs as well. Issues such as this do not get concluded over night, Mr. Speaker, so I hope the Member will understand that we, as a government, are moving ahead aggressively on this issue. Once the issue is concluded, hopefully then we can make a progress report. Thank you.

Oral questions, Mr. Roland.

The Minister responsible for the Liquor Licensing Board, Mr. Todd.