Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this is in regard to termination benefits for employees. My written questions are:

1. Is there one central specialist charged with implementing the layoff guidelines to ensure all employees are treated fairly. If not, would you consider hiring one, just to make sure the fairly complicated guidelines are implemented consistently across the board?

2. How many layoffs related grievances have been filed against the government since 1995?

3. What is the status of those claims?

4. With those grievances that have been settled, how many were settled in favour of the employee?

5. How many of these came as a result of guidelines being misapplied or misinterpreted?

6. Has this resulted in the government re-evaluating how these layoff guidelines are applied?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I will be tabling documents of the resolutions from the Beaufort Delta Leaders Conference, one dated October, 1997, on the Electoral Boundaries Commission, and another resolution dated March 30, 1998, on the Electoral Boundaries Commission. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I was going to seek unanimous consent at the appropriate time to return to item 5.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize two gentlemen in the gallery, Mr. Bob Beaulieu, one of the north's finest athletes. My former supervisor, Breynat Hall, a pretty fine guy and another one of my schoolmates, Morris Zoe, from Fort Rae, working for BHP. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on Monday, June 1, 1998, I will move the following motion.

Now therefore, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Yellowknife Frame Lake, that the Northwest Territories Electoral Boundaries Commission be established in accordance with part 1 of the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act;

And further, that the Northwest Territories Electoral Boundaries Commission in preparing its report, shall take into consideration:

a) the geographic and demographic considerations, including the sparsity, density or rate of growth of the population of any part of the territory and the accessibility, size or shape of any part of the territory;

b) any special community or diversity of interests of the inhabitants of any part of the territory;

c) the means of communication among various parts of the territory;

d) the minimum and maximum number of Members of the Legislative Assembly authorized by the Northwest Territories Act;

Further, the Commission should strive to maintain a balance between urban and rural populations when recommending the boundaries of constituencies;

Furthermore, the Commission should take into consideration the cultural and linguistic interests of the territories and its present land claim boundaries when recommending the boundaries of constituencies;

Furthermore, take into consideration any other similar and relevant factors that the Commission considers appropriate. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

I call the committee to order. For consideration today in Committee of the Whole we have Bill 15, Adoption Act, and Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 1998-99. Could I have some direction from the committee as to how we shall proceed? Mr. Ootes.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that we consider Bill 15, Adoption Act, followed by Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 1998-99. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ootes. I do not believe that it is necessary to move. Do you recommend?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the correction. I recommend that we proceed in the order of Bill 15, Adoption Act, followed by Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act No. 1, 1998-99. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ootes. Does the committee agree that we should proceed in that manner?