Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm not sure I understand why the Minister couldn't commit to provide that direction to his department right now. So I would hope that he would reconsider that and provide the direction that they should start work at looking at what draft legislation might look like, and then also start the process of consultation with municipalities.

The other issue that I have some concern about though is about the federal government and its Personal Information and Protection of Electronic Documents Act. As things stand right now, this federal act applies in the Northwest Territories, and our committee has, since reviewing the Commissioner's 2000-2001 report, asked the department to start work on legislation to make sure that we would have our own made-in-the-north legislation instead of leaving the field open to allow the federal legislation to have jurisdiction in the Northwest Territories. I know that this Minister was quite anxious to see that we didn't leave human rights legislation down south and that we have a made-in-the-north solution for that. So I guess I would have to ask why is he not prepared to make the same move on personal information and protection of electronic documents in the Northwest Territories? Why are we satisfied that the federal law shall prevail for the next two years, and then we'll take a look at how things are working and decide if we need our own when we didn't do that with the other legislation? I think we should do our own legislation now. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.