Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Yukon model, of course, is much broader than a Public Service Commission that I think this motion entertains, so it is very misleading when you say that it is $7 million to $8 million, because it has a host of other functions.
Every Member in this House, Mr. Chairman, is accountable to their constituents and is given a clear mandate thorough the election process. The accountability being discussed today is much broader than that. It is much more complex. We are Legislature. The Premier is in charge of running a government that spends almost a billion dollars a year and has a tremendous amount of programs and services delivered on behalf of all the citizens of the Northwest Territories.
So it is a little glib just to say every four years we are accountable to our constituents. We are here in a process of accountability to spend public money the tax payers have given us. So I have concerns with some of the general nature of these comments.
In the information that is going to be prepared for Inuvik, will there also be information prepared on the affirmative action program? There was considerable work done, and I reviewed the committee report that was prepared in the 13th Assembly, as well as the government response, which was basically put on the shelf. It is tied into the human resource issue, and it is something that has to be addressed. It was brought up, as I indicated, in 1989 and I hope that the government's information on a Public Service Commission is not going to come in, so clearly biased against, that it will be set up so that there is no chance that it will be accepted because the picture painted will not be objective and unbiased. Thank you.