Thank you, Mr. Nitah. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, yes, we cannot assume that the two agreements are the same because they are negotiated by two different aboriginal leaderships.

The main fundamental difference between the two is that in the case of the Deh Cho Interim Measures Agreement, a process is laid out quite clearly for dealing with various issues that either protection or action needs to be taken. In the case of the Akaitcho Interim Measures Agreement, there are no schedules negotiated so all we have is the framework document without any detail of what the processes will be. I assume those are yet to be negotiated. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Nitah.

Thank you, Mr. Nitah. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, I do not believe that I have the authority to be able to do that. I think that is something that has to be negotiated with the Akaitcho leadership, Akaitcho negotiators. Certainly we have been discussing how to handle this issue with our Department of Justice as well as my Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development.

I also have, as I indicated before, a letter for Minister Nault, but all I can say at this time is I urge the negotiators to get on with finalizing those schedules so we have clear direction. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Nitah.

Thank you, Mr. Nitah. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, anytime the government is asked to issue permits or licences, it has to do so within existing guidelines, regulations, legislation. We cannot just arbitrarily say yes or no. I have to work with the legislation, regulations, guidelines and policies that exist.

If I did not do that and just arbitrarily said yes or no to permits, then I think I would be opening up our government to being sued by individuals and companies who feel they have a legitimate right to apply for and receive an application.

I have to work with what is there already. I cannot make assumptions about what might be in the future or what political consideration might have to be taken into account. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta, Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs, Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to respond in the context of what happened to the curling rink. It was condemned because of various contraventions of the Public Health Act and the regulations. The important thing here, Mr. Speaker, is that we have gone into Aklavik to do an assessment of the curling rink. We felt there was still some opportunity to refurbish it, to extend the life of the curling rink. We have not heard back from the community whether that was acceptable or not at this point. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister Allen. Supplementary, Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is good to know the history, but the question was where in the five-year capital planning process, where there was supposed to be expenditures made in 2002, 2003, 2004 in regard to $50,000 being spent on the design work and $665,000 for the curling rink. Can the Minister tell me exactly where are those resources that are supposed to be allocated for a curling rink?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs, Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, the curling rink was removed from the capital planning process due to the fact that there were other priorities developed through the filtering. One was the importance of our expenditure on the quality of water, which took a great amount of our capital planning budget, as well as fire protection, which was another important part for the protection of the people. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, can the Minister tell us exactly who removed this from the capital planning process and when is this government going to reinstate that project?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Two questions there, Minister Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I understand that it is a government-wide planning process. I think it is under review by this House. That is as much knowledge as I have on the subject. Thank you.

Thank you. Final supplementary, Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I find it interesting that the review is going to take place in this House, which is something new to probably all of the Members on this side of the House, where we have not had any input into that process.

I would like to ask the Minister when that is going to take place in this House? How is a community such as Aklavik going to have input into this new planning process that you mentioned?