Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order in relation to comments made by the honourable Member for Sahtu, Mr. Kakfwi, who is also a Minister of this government, in his Member's statement made on Friday, February 13th.

Mr. Speaker, my point of order is that it would appear that the Member for Sahtu made reference and quoted from a Cabinet document, a document, Mr. Speaker, that he would have access to as a Minister but not if he was an Ordinary Member. If this is the case, Mr. Speaker, I refer to citation 495(1) from Beauchesne's Parliamentary Rules and Forms, 6th edition:

A Minister is not at liberty to read or quote from a dispatch or other state paper not before the House without being prepared to lay it on the Table

Mr. Speaker, the Member for Sahtu did say and I quote from page 1261 of an unedited Hansard:

"The Inuvik Health Board recently overturned a Cabinet directive which was effective April 1, 1995."

The Member, Mr. Kakfwi, did say that the then Minister of Health and Social Services communicated this directive in writing. Mr. Speaker, it is my contention that the letter only mentioned two cabinet approved changes and as an Ordinary Member not having access to Cabinet documents, I am not sure that there were not other decisions contained in the same Cabinet decision. Mr. Speaker, if you rule that I have a point of order, I would then ask the Premier to consider tabling the entire Cabinet decision quoted from by the Member for Sahtu. Thank you.