Thank you, Mr. Minister. Item 4, returns to oral questions. The honourable Member for Nunakput, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have a Return to Oral Question asked by the Member for Inuvik Boot Lake on November 1, 2001. Mr. Floyd Roland wanted to know if the security screening done at the Yellowknife airport is performed at the discretion of the airlines.

Under the authority of the Canadian Aviation Security Regulations, Transport Canada designates the security classifications and requirements for Canadian airports. In determining its security designations, Transport Canada completes a risk assessment for each airport according to a number of criteria, such as the type and volume of air traffic moving through the airport and the routes the airport serves. In the end, the specific reason Transport Canada has for assigning a security classification to a given airport is confidential.

The Yellowknife airport has a tighter class II security classification than Inuvik or Norman Wells. The regulations require that on flights departing the Yellowknife airport for other class I or II airports, the air carrier must conduct security screenings of the passengers and their luggage. The air carriers can exercise discretion as to how they decide to satisfy the security regulations. In the case the Member referred to in his question, the air carriers could screen the passengers and luggage prior to their departure from Inuvik or Norman Wells and thus avoid the security screening in Yellowknife before proceeding onwards to a class I or II airport.

In this case, however, the air carriers have decided not to do the security screening in Inuvik and Norman Wells. This means that onward bound passengers from Inuvik and Norman Wells must go through the security screening in Yellowknife before continuing their flight. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Item 4, returns to oral questions. Item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery.

Colleagues, would you join with me in recognizing in the gallery, Mr. Robert Langdon, Knight of the Order of St. John and Chancellor of the Canadian Priory of St. John Ambulance, and his wife, Betty Langdon.

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Mr. Langdon is here to assist the Vice Prior Glenna Hansen with the 2001 Investiture, which will be held tomorrow in the Great Hall at 11:45 a.m. This will honour 12 Northerners and promote Commissioner Hansen to the rank of Dame of Grace; the first aboriginal Canadian to be knighted.

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The order believes that tomorrow's investiture will be the first in some 900 years to be held outside of a church or regal residence. In addition, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome someone accompanying them, David Connelly, the president of St. John Council for the Northwest Territories and for Nunavut. Welcome to our Assembly.

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Item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery. The honourable Member for Yellowknife Centre, Mr. Ootes.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I would like to recognize two members of Canada's Olympic badminton team who have been invited to the Northwest Territories at the invitation of the Northwest Territories Badminton Association, Mr. Bryan Moody of Quebec and Mr. Brent Olynyk of British Columbia. They will be visiting schools and giving clinics and presentations, Mr. Speaker. They will also be giving a short exhibition of high level badminton on Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m. at Sir John Franklin gym. They are seated in the gallery with Laurell and Ron Graf. Please help me welcome them to the gallery.

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Item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery. The honourable Member for Nunakput, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize Mr. Eddy Dillon of Tuktoyaktuk. Mr. Dillon is the former mayor of Tuktoyaktuk and has been active on many Inuvialuit boards as well as on the Northwest Territories Water Board.

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Thank you, Mr. Steen. Item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery. The honourable Member for Frame Lake, Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, for the past two weeks, we have had the able assistance of two fine groups of young people in this House, our pages. One group, those here today, are students at William MacDonald School, which is a school in my constituency. I would like to recognize the pages. With us today we have Abby Alty, Amanda Baton, Sandra Bokovay, Jill Campbell, Alexandra Cracknell, Jessica Fornier, Kesley MacDougall, Alexandrea Malakoe, Michael Shayhi, and up in the gallery is Josh Parent. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Dent. Item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery. The honourable Member for Hay River North, Mr. Delorey.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize a Hay Riverite up in the gallery, Mike Mahar. Mike is a town councillor in Hay River. Welcome to the Assembly.

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Thank you, Mr. Delorey. Item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery. The honourable Member for Thebacha, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I as well would like to take this time to recognize Ms. Frieda Martselos, a local successful businesswoman from Fort Smith, a constituent and a friend, now in the Business Credit Corporation. Thank you.

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Item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery. The honourable Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes, Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs responsible for sport, recreation and youth, and as a '72 Olympian, I would like to recognize Mr. Bryan Moody of Quebec and Mr. Brent Olynyk of British Columbia. Welcome.

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Item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery. The honourable Member for Weledeh, Mr. Handley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize all of the members of the board of directors for the Business Credit Corporation who are with us today, and two staff members. The people are Kim Staples, the chair; Darrell Beaulieau, vice-chair; Frieda Martselos, a member and director; Eddie Dillon, director; Michael Maher, a director; and two staff people, Tracey-Lynn Lower and Ian Collins with the BCC. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Handley. Item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery. The honourable Member for Hay River South, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to recognize a visitor in the gallery today who is actually a constituent of Mr. Delorey, but it is my daughter, Gillian. She is here on official business. I want to assure her teachers of that. Thank you.

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Item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery. Colleagues, I would like to take this opportunity to recognize Mrs. Whitford, Mrs. Speaker, on a rare visit -- shows you the Speaker does not play favourites. Any further recognition of visitors in the gallery? I would like to take this opportunity to welcome everyone here and I thank you for coming to see your Legislative Assembly.

Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for North Slave, Mr. Lafferty.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We recognize the importance of caribou to many people. In the past, we have considered applications by communities who have to travel unusually long distances to harvest traditional food. I do not know which community Mr. Lafferty is referring to but certainly if they request it, we will have a look at it. Thank you.