Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are addressed to the Deputy Premier regarding the transfer of federal government positions from Ottawa to the Northwest Territories. This was an issue of great interest in the 13th Assembly. The federal government, as it is an expert in doing, dragged its feet through two long, laborious studies and ended up saying the employees did not want to move, so they are not going to make them come north.

I would just like to ask the Minister now that the election is over and there is a new government in Ottawa, what is the territorial government doing to in fact put this issue back on the agenda, so hopefully during the life of this Assembly, we can look at having those positions moved to the Northwest Territories, and not all of them in Yellowknife? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.