Thank you, Mr. Handley. Supplementary, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My worry is that these are suggestions for him to ignore and not to improve the program. It really does not matter what we say. I am absolutely fed up with that, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, I ask again, will the Minister have a full, real, honest and respectful consultation with the Members of this House on the details of this program? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Finance, Mr. Handley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I will have as full and as honest and complete consultation with the Members on the other side to the extent that time allows us. We are committed to have the criteria and the applications out next week. We are committed to getting this money into the hands of people who need it by the end of March. We do not have a lot of time to carry on with extended consultations, but any advice, any suggestions that Members have, please give them to me. By the end of this week, we have to make some decisions on what the final criteria is going to be. Within the time frame we have, definitely I will consult with Members to every extent possible. Thank you.

Merci, Mr. Handley. Final supplementary, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, if he keeps looking for an idea as to how he can spend a million bucks so that everyone can say what a nice guy he is and he needs to do it in two weeks, I could give him 100 suggestions, Mr. Speaker. Eleven of us could approve supplementary budgets. We could delay this. We have to do it right, and...

Ms. Lee, order, please. Ms. Lee, you know the rules. This is your final supplementary, no preamble. Go right to the question. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, would he be willing to ignore the arbitrary time line that he set and sit down and talk with us to work out the details? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Finance, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, there are a lot of people in the Territories who are having a tough time paying their bills and making ends meet. I do not know if they are in Ms. Lee's constituency or not. I do not know where they are, but there are a lot of people out there. I intend to get this money in the hands of those people as quickly as possible. I do not want to get into a long, protracted consultation to try to perfect this thing. This is a one-time rebate program to get money into the hands of people who deserve it and need it and are desperate for that money. I am going to stick with that schedule. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Thank you, Mr. Handley. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Inuvik Boot Lake, Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Finance, Mr. Handley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I have said before, this program is being administered by the NWT Housing Corporation. Minister Allen tells me that he will have everything out by the latter part of next week. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister Handley. Supplementary, Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. If he can be a little more specific in that area as to how they are going to get this information out. Are there documents that are going to have to be put together and mailed out to communities, or is it a matter of getting a fax and sending it in? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Finance, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, as I have mentioned before, the information we have made available through the local housing associations or organizations and through the Housing Corporation offices. Given the urgency to get this out to people who need the money to get our people in the Housing Corporation to process the applications as quickly as possible, we are probably going to have to rely on a lot of fax material and a lot of that being done electronically rather than mail. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Handley. Supplementary, Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Being able to deliver in that fashion cuts down on getting it out to the communities, so will there be enough time to revise this application form if that is the case? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Finance, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, my intention is, given the advice and the recommendations and so on from the Members and from others who are hearing about the program and suggesting ways of improving it, we want to have that in and make the final changes at the end of this week. That gives us over the weekend and the early part of next week to get it out. We will try to maintain that schedule so, as I said, we can get the cheques into the hands of people without delay. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Tu Nedhe, Mr. Nitah.