Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I recall that a committee was struck early on in the life of this Assembly to look at the Affirmative Action Policy. This was an issue of concern to many Members of this House. I believe that Mr. Picco, Mr. Erasmus and Mr. Miltenberger were members of the committee that was struck and there may have been more Members. The government put together a draft policy and provided it to this Assembly and gave it to the committee for review. The committee reviewed this draft policy and reported on it in June 1997. Since that time, there has been a working group established, there has been more research and recommendations put in place. As I said earlier, Mr. Speaker, the government is firmly committed to affirmative action. We have taken actions to ensure that more aboriginals are involved. We do need to balance the affirmative action hiring based on merit, et cetera. As I said earlier, the Premier has been working on a document that outlines for all Members
what the government has done and will be doing and what it proposes to do and that will be tabled later this week.