Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I missed part of the question, so may I ask the Member to repeat the question, please?

Thank you, Mr. Allen. Mr. Nitah, would you please repeat the question for the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Nitah. The honourable Minister responsible for the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation, Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There are a couple of important things I would like to present to the Member. First of all, I would just like to point out that it is very important that we look outside of the small community markets we have here in the Northwest Territories, if we are going to develop some kind of revenue generated through the sale of housing and those products.

One of the things we look at in terms of the international market that the Member is speaking about, is that we are trying to market northern manufactured products through the sale of Northwest Territories Housing Corporation units to Alaska, in particular. I believe that in terms of its economics, we have great potential that we cannot ourselves in the Northwest Territories support. If that answers the Member's question. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Allen. Supplementary, Mr. Nitah.

Thank you, Mr. Nitah. The honourable Minister responsible for the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation, Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am very pleased to state that we are seeking to demonstrate our northern design of manufactured products that are saleable outside of our own region. If it requires exportation of those products to either southern parts of Canada or the circumpolar world, that is to our benefit. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Allen. Supplementary, Mr. Nitah.

Thank you, Mr. Nitah. The honourable Minister responsible for the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation, Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am not familiar with the specific question. I am assuming that the Member is talking about the project we have going in Stebbins, Alaska. That, Mr. Speaker, is a coordinated effort between our government, including Aurora College, to provide some level of training over there, in the context of a pilot project initiative. The supplies are delivered through the Northwest Territories. We are also including in that northern manufactured products. The overall component of those five units is mainly done through the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation designs and delivery of those services. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Allen. Final supplementary, Mr. Nitah.

Thank you, Mr. Nitah. Just to remind Members, towards the end of the supplementaries, they should be brief and to the point. The honourable Minister responsible for the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation, Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I could not agree more with the Member here. I believe we have all extrapolated the philosophy from the Sessional Statement where it puts a priority on Housing. In terms of resource development, Mr. Speaker, we have gone into the communities and regions, trying to identify what is the most affordable way to build houses. I agree there is a great opportunity for our communities to develop secondary industries to meet the housing needs. I look specifically to Fort Resolution where they have a large inventory of timber. I believe we can put our resources into the community. The Premier and I have discussed it at some length a few weeks ago that we could develop lumber products to build rafters and floor joists. Those are some of the things we should really be looking at in the long-term, to utilize our northern resources.

Obviously, on free enterprise, I agree we should develop northern products. It is just going to take a matter of time, consistent with our vision statement, consistent with the policy of this government, with the philosophy of change as to how we are going to make revisions to the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation's overall delivery system. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Allen. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Frame Lake, Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister responsible for Health and Social Services. I would like to question the Minister about the Stanton Regional Hospital Board. Mr. Speaker, in answering the Member for Thebacha, the Minister questioned whether or not there was a tradition about the board appointing the deputy chair. I would say that, unless you have a very strange definition, there is indeed a tradition.

I would say that there is a tradition for regional make-up on the board. Could the Minister please advise the House, what the regional make-up of the Stanton board is?

Thank you, Mr. Dent. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Health and Social Services, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I indicated that the by-laws dictate the make-up of the board at this present time. Whether it is a tradition or not, the by-laws have been complied with and that is what the history of the board has been. I believe the make-up of the board is about 50 percent Yellowknife and 50 percent regional. Thank you.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Supplementary, Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I understand it all the of the boards in the service area of the hospital are represented on the board; Inuvik Health and Social Services Board, the South Slave, et cetera, the Deh Cho. If I heard her right when she was answering the Member for Thebacha, she indicated that she was proposing to add a position to the board. Can the Minister advise, what is the number of positions right now? Is she actually talking about adding an additional position?

Thank you, Mr. Dent. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Health and Social Services, Mrs. Groenewegen.