We will do that. As I said, we will consider all the recommendations that are made by the committee for this Bill 15, including the 2-2-2. Thank you.

Thank you. How soon will the government be able to get back to the committee on an approximate time schedule to nail down how you are going to proceed on this issue from tomorrow until the end of the life of this Assembly?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We are getting into a really tight time crunch in regard to taking the recommendations and writing letters to people with requests that they respond by certain time frames. That is one approach that we initially thought of. As well, these Assemblies go on. In summertime it is very difficult to try to get to people because there are holidays in different Assemblies. We will attempt everything that we can to try to reach everybody, but it is going to be quite difficult to do because of the amount of time we have left to do this work and the time of the year. We will make all efforts to try to come back and keep the committee members as informed as possible. It is very difficult at this time to say that we are going to do this at this time and are going to respond. It is very difficult, but we will try to do it as timely and quickly as we can. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Will you commit to this Legislative Assembly that this is the highest priority for your government and the highest priority for yourself as Premier to try to work out a political solution and consult with those aboriginal groups and other stakeholders?

Mr. Chairman, if the last few days were any indication of what to expect to in September, I am certainly going to make it my first priority. Thank you.

When decisions are made and they are decisive, sometimes names change. Instead of lame duck, maybe it should be muddy duck once decisions are made. In all seriousness, Mr. Premier, this is a critical issue for the western Northwest Territories. I know how busy you and your Cabinet Members are, but at this time in our history we have to be focused. We have to move ahead and we have to give some assurances to our small communities prior to the next election. We have to do everything possible. That is why we are here. I do not speak for the Standing Committee on Government Operations, but if we can help in any way, we would be willing to do that to work on a political solution. I know you have a process in place right now where you do have our chairperson involved with yourself, your Minister of Finance, but if you need more help, then we would be willing to do that. It is something that has to be addressed.

Certainly, if I can get the direction from Cabinet, whenever we get back together here in the next few days and raise this issue and if ordinary Members are free for doing this work and they have some energy and are willing to help us out on this one here, then certainly we would welcome that and maybe make some arrangements on how we could work together on this whole initiative. Thank you.

I think the honourable Member is asking about a technical move here in regard to Bill 15 and the amendment for a sunset clause. We thought that Members of the committee were going to do the amendment and we were going to support that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think it is up to this committee, but we have all that work done and we could share it with you to show how much we are willing to work with you and allow you, instead of ourselves taking all of the glory, we would allow the government or give the government the opportunity to introduce an amendment so that it shows the people in the Northwest Territories that we are fully committed to moving ahead and looking for a political solution and we are all working together.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We could do that. We will do that if Members of the committee wish us to.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As has been indicated, the smaller communities do need some form of reassurance that things are going to happen and in order for that reassurance we feel very strongly that things have to be in legislation before this Assembly dissolves and we all know that legislation takes time to be drafted and there are only certain people that can do drafting, but this government has used drafters from the south in the past and we have people in the past who used to work here that live in other jurisdictions and I know that this government still uses them. I would like to see if the Premier would be willing to use other drafters than our own staff if we have to in order to insure that this legislation is completed in time to be passed by this Assembly. Thank you.