Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to try this spring again, when the weather is a little better. Hopefully we will go straight there and I could donate to Sachs Harbour economy. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a few short questions for the Premier. The first one is, is the Department of Personnel for all intensive purposes disbanded? Does the Premier know how many employees were in the department previously and now that responsibility has gone out to each department? Has the number of PYs dealing with personnel matters, has it increased since the department was disbanded? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I do not know the answer to that question, but I could get the information, for the Member. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I would appreciate receiving that information and it would give me some indication as to whether the government is being more efficient as far as the number of employees that were working in it. I would refer, Madam Chair, to Hansard of March 5, 1997, in which the Premier response to a question on the socio-economic impact benefits agreement. The Premier had made

the comment and had offered encouragement to people in the Northwest Territories. I very much supported the statement and was hoping to hear more of a similar statements from the Premier where he was referring to the people of the Northwest Territories that they had a responsibility to participate in the workforce. If I can quote what the Minister said, "the people themselves, the young people of the Northwest Territories, have a responsibility that you better be on the plane when your time is to go to work. You better be there every time that you are supposed to be there". What I was wanting to do, Madam Chair, is to encourage the Premier to make more statements like that and to encourage the people of the Northwest Territories that they have to present themselves to employers and to let employers know that, yes in fact, I am interested in working for you, and I am interested in having a job every day. That was more of an encouragement to the Premier to make more of those statements. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Point taken, I will be doing that and I do that when I speak at communities or to young people. I tell people that they have a responsibility, the government has a responsibility and mining companies and employers have a responsibility. But ultimately nobody is going to come knocking on your door to put you to work. You have to come out and make yourself available to work.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The government has produced a new magazine, if you will, for government employees, and it is called the Bear Facts. This is, I suggest, a fancy magazine. It is good and well done. I think a lot of people put a lot of work into it. I would realize that the Premier probably would not know offhand how much a document like that costs on a regular basis. What I would ask him is was there any consideration given to putting it on the Internet rather than having it published for employees. Thank you Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I would have to check that, but I think there is stuff on the Internet as well, a new web page. We are going to launch that fairly soon. I do know that, I think, it consists of eleven issues a year. It is $50,000.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I am impressed that the Minister would have that figure at hand. Just a comment, the Minister responded to this House when asked if he would consider printing the telephone directory, and the Premier had commented that the information was available on the Internet so I would just suggest it would be another way to publish this document to make it available for people to download it as necessary. Thank you, Madam Chair. Those are all my comments and questions.

Thank you, Madam Chair, we also redid the telephone directory for the Government of the Northwest Territories. We are also looking at Mr. Erasmus' concern about the central government switchboard. I will be talking more with Mr. Arlooktoo, Minister of Department of Public Works and Services as well as Mr. Kakfwi, Minister of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development because of the whole tourism end of it. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to thank the Members for their comments and it has been a pleasure. Thank you.