Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I was not satisfied with the last question to the Minister and I want clarification on the point that was a big issue in the 13th Assembly, with the whole area of project dollars being moved from one section of the highway to another section of the highway, which is the same highway. For instance, if the project was on Highway No. 3, the Member for North Slave, where a project was moved from his area to the other end, which is in the Yellowknife Members' ridings, or the same thing in Highway No. 8. A portion of the highway is in my riding and the other portion ends up in Inuvik's riding. Money is being moved from one section of the highway to another Member's riding. I would like to remind the Minister that there was a motion of censure in the 13th Assembly on a similar type of issue.

I would like to ask the Minister for more clarification on what type of authority Members have on those sections of highway that go through their ridings.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. I just want to remind Members that in an effort to conserve question time, please make the questions short. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Transportation, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, for clarification, the department moved $950,000 from the southern portion of the Dempster Highway to the northern portion of the Dempster Highway. It was to reflect the increased cost of that bridge project at Campbell Creek.

The department is not aware that we are going from one riding to another. I have my department checking on this right now, but we believe the town boundaries are the boundaries of the Inuvik ridings. Therefore, Campbell Creek would be in the Member's riding. We are not moving money from one riding into another, as far as we know at this point. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Steen. Supplementary, Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in the case that the bridge is in the river from the Inuvik Boot Lake riding, what is the remedy to ensure that this does not happen to other Members within this House, where the department uses the discretion that they can move from one section of the highway to the next section of the highway without informing the Members? Could the Minister tell me exactly whether this has happened anywhere else?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Transportation, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the department is well aware of the requirement to inform Members if we move certain amounts of money from one riding to another. We have been practicing this. We have, in the past, where we have had to move money from sections of Highway No. 3 to Highway No. 4, for instance, and we have informed the appropriate Members when we have done this. As far as we know, we are following the rules to the letter. We do not believe that we are moving money from one riding to another at this point. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Steen. Supplementary, Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So can the Minister clarify exactly what is his department doing to ensure that all Members are aware that any project is deferred, regardless of where it happens on a road system, that the Members are being informed that you are deferring dollars, in this case $900,000 from an area that I believe is in my riding, to the north end of the highway? What is the process to notify Members of monies being deferred? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Transportation, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, if we have to transfer money from one riding to another, we inform the Members by letter that we are doing so. That is the process that we have been using. That is the process that we have been told to use. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Steen. Your final short supplementary, Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this is the first time I have heard that $950,000 was deferred from one section of the highway to another, until I heard it in this House. It took your department two months to inform me that the contract, which was let go in March, which I just received a couple of days ago. What is the timeline that your department used to inform Members that they do ensure that they do have fair notification, where we do not hear about it long after the fact that the contract has been let go?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Transportation, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, at this point, we do not have a process whereby we inform Members if we are going to move money within their ridings from one section of the highway project to another.

The total project for the Dempster is $5 million for this year. We are simply taking money from one section of the Dempster and putting it on another section of the Dempster.

Almost 100 percent of the Dempster is in the Member's riding. So we are not transferring money outside of his riding and we do not have a process to inform any of the Members if we are transferring certain projects around or moving the money around within their ridings. It is only required if we take it from one riding to another. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Steen. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Thebacha, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to address my question to the Minister of Justice, continuing the line of questioning in regard to the warden's position at the Territorial Women's Correctional Centre.

Mr. Speaker, the Minister's answers have been less than forthright. Basically, he has been trying to slag me off here.

Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Minister indicated that he had made a decision that he was going to go to direct appointment. Now he says that it is a Cabinet decision. I know that he takes it to the Cabinet as the Minister. I would like the Minister to confirm whether he intends to proceed with the direct appointment for the warden's position? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Justice, Mr. Antoine.

Merci, Mr. Antoine. Supplementary, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is somewhat of a painful process, but I would just like the Minister to confirm that yes, he is moving forward with the request to have a direct appointment to staff with the warden's position at the TWCC? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Justice, Mr. Antoine.

Thank you, Mr. Antoine. Supplementary, Mr. Miltenberger.