Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the department has been working quite hard on this issue to try and come up with a set of terms of reference and I hope to have those terms of reference before this session is done and, if that is possible to do at that point, I would be sharing it with the Members of this Assembly. I am hoping that before we are done and recessed from this session that I would have a set of terms of reference. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I believe it is very important for them, especially for the smaller communities and the regions to have an opportunity to make presentations to the ministerial forum. I would like to ask the Minister, how does the he envision this happening to ensure that the smaller communities will be able to have an opportunity to raise their concerns and make an attempt to go to all communities?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the Member stated, it is a very important initiative for us in the Western Territory now to review our progress as we deliver programs and services on behalf of the residents of the territory and the terms of reference will include going to each, as I see it, constituency to receive input on the delivery of Health and social

services. Hopefully the terms of reference will also include a number of other initiatives that the department has been looking at to try and go out with a focused document to get some constructive feedback as to how we are delivering services in the west. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I believe that any forum that is established in this government should reflect the Western Territory and constituents that we represent. I would like to ask the Minister, what is going to be done to ensure that we have representation from the different ridings and regions on such a committee so that we do get a feel for the regions and the different aboriginal communities up and down the ballot?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. One of the things we are looking at doing is definitely trying to get representation from across the Northwest Territories, north to south, east to west. One of the concerns that we do have is the size of the forum. The larger the size of the forum, the more dollars we will have to pay out for travel and so on. We are wrestling with that right now within the department as to the size of the forum that would go out and trying to balance the interest of the forum, whether there be professional people on there, as well as lay people, and getting regional representation in there as well. We are wrestling with that right now and trying to make sure we address those concerns. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, can the Minister tell me exactly how many days does he expect this forum to carry out this public consultation to communities and also, when does the Minister intend to table a final report in this House? Are we talking days, months, years? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I cannot give the Member an absolute date as to when we see this forum completing its work. What we are hoping to do with this minister's forum is to go forth and receive input from the residents of the territories and produce a document that would enable the future Assembly, the 14th Assembly of this territory, to look at what would need to be done to try and change or move forward with some initiatives that would improve the delivery of the health care system as we know it now. I am hoping that we can start this off in the very near future. Once we have the terms of reference and we let all the boards and the Members know where that is going, we would be able to move forward shortly after that into an actual forum travelling throughout the territory, at least one community in each constituency, to receive input. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.