Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. The honourable Minister responsible for the NWT Power Corporation, Mr. Handley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, yes, I will certainly do that. The Power Corporation has a good working relationship with the Dogrib people. We recognize people's rights and we want our employees to show the same respect as the corporation does itself. I will follow up on this one. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. The honourable Minister responsible for the NWT Power Corporation, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, unless there were issues of safety and security, then I do not know what the consequences would be. Our people out there are not armed. They are not going to wrestle somebody to the ground. I do not know what they would have done if the people had just ignored whoever this person was. I assure you I will check into it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Final supplementary, Mr. Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. The honourable Minister responsible for the NWT Power Corporation, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, I do not know of anything in those negotiations that would have caused this incident to arise. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Deh Cho, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. The honourable Minister responsible for Housing, Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just to update the Member, we still are on schedule to take the document back to Cabinet for final approval, after which we will promptly release it to the Members. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, that was the same answer that the Minister gave us last week. He had indicated to us he would be taking the document to Cabinet. I would like to ask the Minister, can he tell us what he is taking to Cabinet? Is he taking a request to scrap the strategy or is he going ahead with a request to ask for a deferral? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. The honourable Minister responsible for Housing, Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again, just to reconfirm, we are taking the document back to Cabinet with the intent to defer the implementation date to October 1st, 2002.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I raised in this House a request that the Minister continue scrapping this project. It was brought to me by many people across the North that this is not a very good strategy for us.

I would like to ask the Minister, has he heard my request? Has he given it any consideration? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. The honourable Minister responsible for Housing, Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am going to respond precisely in the context that this is a government-wide initiative. If I can extrapolate from the document, the foundation for the initiative lies in the GNWT business plan which established as the Territory's vision a healthy population served by a stable, effective and efficient government that is consistent with Canadian democratic traditions, and is respectful of the needs, potential and aspirations of all residents.

Mr. Speaker, the principle of this initiative is to, in terms of the communication plan, support a larger part of the social agenda message of decreased dependency and increased personal responsibility. What we see, Mr. Speaker, is the majority of people who remain on income support will see a decrease in rents and an increase in other support services.

Those few, approximately 14 to 16 percent affected, we will look at other options to accommodate those individuals who require that. I wanted to inform the Member that we are constantly working on several changes to make sure that this works for all the people. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Final supplementary, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Minister wanted to read out the terms of the document. He should table it so that everyone could read it. I want to know if I am wasting my time here. I have asked on several occasions if there will be any consideration to scrap this strategy. I do not want to waste my Member's statements and my time in oral questions repeating this if there is no intention to do so. I would like the Minister to tell us if there is any intention, any consideration, to scrap the harmonization strategy. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.