Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My honourable colleague is correct. I did get a copy of the letter. There is a small organization in Fort Smith that is asking the UNW to allow their members, as I have consistently said and others have, to vote on the collective agreement. We are going back to the table, I believe, around the 10th or 11th of December. I am optimistic and hoping that common sense will prevail. The offer we have put on the table is a fair and reasonable one and I hope that the union will give its membership the democratic right to vote on what we have placed before them. I hope that the UNW executive will see the merit in our offer and will provide, as I have said, the membership its chance to vote yea or nay.

On the pay equity issue, as I indicated earlier in comments at the last session, we have taken that off of the table, that is at the request of the UNW and others. We are in discussions with them right now about other possible scenarios as to how we can advise the staff who are covered under the pay equity issue what kinds of benefits or fiscal rewards they would get should the pay equity settlement be settled. Thank you.