Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Power Corporation has enjoyed a very good relationship with Dogrib Power Corporation and, as I understand it, they are currently taking a look at the potential for further hydro development on the Snare system. I believe that one of the areas they are interested in developing the power flow would be in the diamond mining region as, at this point, it does not look like there would be much demand for additional hydro in Yellowknife. Therefore, they are looking at marketing the power in the minerals area.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Mr. Rabesca.

Thank you, Mr. Rabesca. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. More than 90 percent of our communities offer high school programs within the community. The goal is to continue with grade extensions. We would like to see grade extensions in every community within the next three to four years.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Mr. Rabesca. Since I have no one left on the list, do the members agree that we are through questioning Mr. Dent? Thank you, Mr. Dent. I believe as the chair identifies each Member including Ministers is allowed ten minutes for wrap up. I am going to have some direction here whether we are going ahead with this or not. Do we proceed? Mr. Premier.

Mr. Premier, I just took that as a question of clarification. I am sorry I did not mean for you to go right ahead into it. If you do not mind the chair needs a little break. I do not have a replacement at this point. Five minutes before we get into this wrap up. I recognize Premier Morin to start off the wrap up. Ten minutes each.

Thank you. Mr. Ootes.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The Mid-Term Review has given us an opportunity for all Members and the Ministers to speak about where we have been and where we need to go, presented our constituency concerns and our personal concerns. Our question process was long. We set a record in the length of time we met. I think we are at something like 16 hours now. The process has been productive. While we were all concerned about the timeframe this process has taken, we have to remember one of the responsibilities that we have in addition to being the questioners of government programs is to keep the public informed and to do things in the public is extremely important. We have to ensure that the public can view and assess the work that we are doing.

Under the new committee system, more business has occurred in the standing committees. Therefore, we have to continually make efforts to ensure that we communicate with the public. A lot of ground work has been covered over the last two days through statements, questions and answers. The result has been that certain commitments have been made because of the questions of Ministers. I want to give an example of that. For instance, the Finance Minister has committed to re-examining the policies that are in place regarding contract policies such as RFPs. There are other examples that I will not refer to tonight. This review has taken a lot of time, but now Members need to digest what has been said, what has been committed to and what has not been committed to. We need to ask where our Cabinet Members are falling down? Where are the short comings other than tiredness? Where are the plans for the remainder of this Assembly?

On a personal note, I think this process has been very beneficial, enlightening and revealing for all Ordinary Members. While we have been very aggressive at times in our questioning, we have worked through two days of this process without raising a great deal of rancour. We have passed on our compliments where it was well deserved, such as the accolades paid to Mr. Antoine and Mr. Dent. On behalf of all the Members, I would like to thank the Ministers for their commitment to this process. Finally, I would like to thank Mr. Hamilton, the staff, the interpreters, the Ministers and their own staff for bearing with us. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr. Ootes. I have Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Even though Mr. Ootes kindly spoke on my behalf, I would like to add a few comments of my own. I can only hope that this has been a once in a lifetime experience. We started off with a lot of hype in the media and such and we have ended up with an exhausted whimper. If you look around, it has been an exercise in either endurance or attrition. We have not really reviewed, amended or changed our initial agenda of two years ago. We have had two marathon sessions of question period, many of which were fairly specific or constituency issues. Unfortunately, there was no clear resolution to issues like the Keewatin pipeline that was discussed tonight.

In my opinion, if I can focus this down for my own personal benefit and the benefit of the people I represent, I think our agenda from here on in should have two main priorities. We should be focusing all the available resources we have on our communities in the areas of employment and social issues. The other priority should be division and the smooth transition to April. For me and I hope for this Assembly, those will be two of our main priorities from here on in. Now we are all really tired, and we have earned what little rest we are going to get before we come back into this lovely place in a few short hours. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. I have Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I too would like to be brief. We have been here for many hours. I, too, would like to state that coming into this, we were focused on the Agenda for Change or that seemed to be the theme to start with. But to me we will go home and review the Hansard on some of our questions, and I think we could have done the same in question period and addressed it that way.

There has been some good work out of this though. I think we all have to ask what is good government. Good government is not just something we grade ourselves with. It is how we operate, the rules in the House that we proceed with, the conduct of Members as we discuss things or ask questions and receive answers. Good conduct and good government is how we as a government and how our Cabinet follow the rules and regulations set up by us. From some of the questions, we can all say that we in some areas fall short.

From here on out, we have to seriously ask ourselves, as people in the public will be, is this good government? As we heard Mr. Miltenberger say, there is probably a lot of people who were waiting for some big event. I think the big event here was a real eye opener, looking at the clock. It has been a long time since I have been up this late at night, or early in the morning, without being in trouble. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. I now have my honourable colleague from Iqaluit, Mr. Picco.

Closing comments. Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, it has been, I would say, a good two days and a long two days but it has been valuable to me. I would say that much. It has also been a valuable two years, up to now, working with the Members, Ordinary Members and with Cabinet. I find it a valuable experience. I am not as naive as I was the first day I came here. I realize that we did accomplish some of our agenda and we do have a ways to go. I hope that, along with the other Members I am sure, that the next two years are going to be more on a job creation agenda rather than on, reductions. If we are to take Mr. Todd, the Finance Minister's words as gospel, we should end up with a very small overall deficit.

I do not like to be looked at as the official opposition to Cabinet. I do not think that it is quite as productive as simply working with Cabinet, and I use question period simply as a way of getting information out from Cabinet to the public, rather than as the official opposition. I find it more productive, I think I am a little bit like Mr. Rabesca is that I do not ask that many questions, but I do a lot of listening. I do learn from the Members and from the questions and answers as to what exactly this government is trying to do.

I hope in the end that we accomplish and fulfil that agenda that we came up with at the start. Personally, I intend to work closely with Cabinet, Mr. Dent, Mr. Arlooktoo, Mr. Todd, the Premier, Mr. Kakfwi, Mr. Antoine, Ms. Thompson, and Mr. Ng. I intend to work with you people for the next two years or at least until your terms are up, closely and I hope that I can be of some assistance to the government in accomplishing our agenda. I thank the Members for your cooperation while I was trying to chair the meeting, especially Mr. Picco. With that, thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Steen. Closing comments. Mr. Erasmus.

Thank you, Mr. Erasmus. I have Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Krutko. Mr. O'Brien.

Thank you, Mr. O'Brien. Mr. Krutko.