Thank you, Mr. Speaker. For clarification, I was directing the question to the Minister of Transportation. I may have erred. Thank you.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the department has been working with the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development, and there was some analysis done. Yes, there is some information as to what we hope is close to what the actual impact would be on the average community. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Steen. Supplementary, Mr. Bell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. With all due respect, I am well aware that the research has been done. I am really asking what the impact would be on a household in Yellowknife. The number, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bell. That borders pretty close to an opinion. I will leave the Minister his discretion in answering that. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Transportation, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we do have some figures on that, but I do not have them on hand. I will be happy to supply the Member with that.

Thank you, Minister Steen. Supplementary, Mr. Bell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I can accept that the Minister would not have that exact information, but would he let me, possibly before that time, know what kinds of assumptions his department was making when they calculated this information? For instance, things like how far a vehicle travels per year. Can he tell me what assumptions were used to arrive at these figures?

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the system we are proposing, the cost would be related to how many zones the vehicle actually crossed. The toll only kicks in if you cross from one zone to another. If you are operating within a zone, there is no cost. It depends on how many zones are actually crossed. For instance, from Alberta to Yellowknife, that would possibly be three or four zones. That would, in the end, decide what the actual cost would be.

Thank you, Mr. Steen. Final supplementary, Mr. Bell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In getting to Yellowknife, I am sure we would go through at least one zone. Could I ask him to table in the House the estimated impact of, for instance, a five cents per tonne kilometre weight of freight truck toll and annual NWT household costs for selected communities so we can get this information and analyze it? Thank you.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am not totally sure whether I have the ability to table this, so I will take the question as notice.

Thank you. The supplementary has been taken as notice. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Range Lake, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for another opportunity to pursue my questions to the Minister of Education. My question has to do with accountability. I understand school boards in Yellowknife have a level of autonomy about what they do with their block funding. What is the level of accountability of a Minister and of this government to make sure there are some boundaries in the way they spend the money? For example, class size, especially in younger grade levels. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Ootes.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there is a great deal of autonomy by the school boards to ensure that their funding is done in their judgement to their needs in the community. Our area of concern is mostly one of overall crowding on a jurisdictional basis. That is the point where we come into the situation to address it. If, for example, a jurisdiction has enrolments of 105 percent for the available school space, then we would naturally step into the situation to see how we could alleviate the situation. Thank you.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The way this blended ratio works, we could theoretically have a class of three students at Sir John, but the figures we have at Range Lake is that every class above grade 4 will have more than 30 students. Could the Minister commit to look at that situation and see if that 30 is too big a number for a class at that level?

Thank you, Ms. Lee. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Ootes.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do want to acknowledge, Mr. Speaker, that yes, I agree it is very high. There is no doubt that there is concern on the parts of the parents with this enrolment that classes do exceed 30, or even 27 or 25 plus.

The school boards, however, have some options available to them, and that is to have enrolments in other schools where there is space available. That is why I state when there is space available in other school areas, that option is available. In other words, until, overall, the enrolments are beyond the level we feel that action is required, then I think we have to leave it to the school board to sort this out.

In the case where the overcrowding may be in one school, if there is a hurdle for students to get to the other school, we do provide funding for bussing services. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister Ootes. Supplementary, Ms. Lee.