Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I think it is important that when we have questions to not jump to conclusions, simply ask the question and wait for the response. I have said that these revisions were based on what is provided for Members of Parliament. Certainly the Member should not make any suggestion that what governs the Members of Parliament is wrong because this is what it is based on.
We have provided changes that will, in fact, for Mr. Dent and Mr. Bell's information, provide greater flexibility for the day when they as Yellowknife-based Ministers will be sitting in Cabinet and requiring to travel on government business. Currently or in the past there was no home travel provided for Ministers that come from Yellowknife.
Under this new policy then, Mr. Dent and Mr. Bell have something to look forward to when they come here because there is a policy now that provides that they can travel and apply for trips, ask for trips to be covered by the government that will be deemed to be duty travel, but not relating specifically to the department that they are Minister of. This is what the changes provide for. They also provide for people like myself who represent a constituency outside Yellowknife and are required to maintain contact, family ties and community ties with the people I come from, my band, my community, my constituency. This is where the ties are with my children and my family, and it provides for that. It was provided for as well since I became a Member of the Legislature and Cabinet in 1987. Thank you.