Thank you, Mr. Speaker and thank you Premier for that response. How long has the Premier or the government, how long are they given for responses before they produce a final document on western governance? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Morin.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do not think a final document, per se on western governance will be produced in the life of this Assembly. Western governance is going to be a complicated issue to say the least, but I feel it is a very exciting issue for us as Legislatures in working with partnership with our aboriginal governments, but it is something that has to be developed in partnerships, through the negotiation tables, with the federal government, with the new fiscal relationship with them as well. It is going to take time, but I think the key here is that we move ahead and we move ahead in the new light, in a true partnership with aboriginal governments. Also in a true partnership with the federal government because I think that is the only way we can achieve our greatest potential we have in the western Arctic. Thank you.

Thank you. Oral questions. Mr. Roland.

The Minister responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation, Mr. Arlooktoo.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I can do a couple of things, one is to review the work that has been done in the Inuvik areas as far as gathering the applications where they are in the process. The corporation tries to maximize the number of clients they can assist, including seniors and special programs that are slated just for seniors.

As with many other programs, there is hardly ever enough money to go around, but we do the best we can. I will review the situation one for the region and I will revisit the issue of assistance for seniors, but I am in the same situation as what Mr. Dent was saying is that the resources we have are pretty much all spoken for. We can always revisit different issues. Thank you.

Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Roland.

Mr. Arlooktoo.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. We can certainly do that. I wanted to clarify that there are two programs that senior's repairs can go under. One is specifically slated for seniors. I do not have the numbers in front of me, but we did increase the amount earlier this year. The other program is through a repair program where the owner of the building is financed through the Housing Corporation. The repairs are done and there is a partial grant and a partial financing and I can make all that information available to the Member. Thank you.

Oral questions. Mr. Miltenberger.

The Minister of Health and Social Services. Mr. Ng.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is a very good question. I obviously do not have those ratios here with me. I will commit to finding out what they are. I would like to state though, we have to put it into prospective because our delivery system in our rural communities primarily is nurse practitioner based which is different than some of our southern jurisdictions. Although, in some of the rural communities of other jurisdictions in Canada, I am sure there are similar models that have been look at and have been implemented as I know during the course of health care reform. Yes, I will commit to finding out that information and reporting back on that. Thank you.

Oral questions. Mr. Krutko.

The Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, Ms. Thompson.

The question is taken as notice. Oral questions. Mr. Barnabas.

(Translation) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I will be directing my question to Honourable Goo Arlooktoo.

Yesterday my Member's statement was on the government decentralization model. Can the Minister tell us if there is any assistance available for smaller communities to acquire some government programs? Thank you Mr. Speaker.(Translation ends)

Minister Arlooktoo.

(Translation) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, under the Nunavut government planning, their staff and the regional governments where given to 11 communities. The proposals are still the same and there are about 15 communities that will be quite differently organized. There is no real assistance program available to the smaller communities.

These other proposals for decentralization that have already been established will not change as much per se but when the Nunavut government is formed, maybe their system will be such that it will be able to assist the areas much better than what has already been done. Thank you. (Translation ends)

Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Barnabas.