Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Minister informed the House as to what the process would be once the changes are finalized? How is information going to be disseminated across the Territories to all the different groups that are involved in sports and recreation? How are they going to be informed and what input are they going to have into the process? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Delorey. The honourable Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, Minister Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I hope that the documents I'm going to table today will help the Members and general public get some idea how and who will be involved in the consultation process and who will be in charge of the consultation process. Right now, the plan is that the council itself will be involved and will be directing most of the consultation process. The interim team will actually be doing all this until the council is in place. So, Municipal and Community Affairs is part of the support for the interim team and we'll be taking part in the consultation process and getting the information out to the membership, the partners, the sports groups, as required. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister Steen. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Great Slave, Mr. Braden.

Mr. Speaker, I'd like to address a question to Minister Steen, Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. It's also in connection with the announcement over the weekend of $15 million coming to the Northwest Territories for municipal improvements. I'm wondering if the Minister can tell us, Mr. Speaker, whether there are any strings attached to this funding. For instance, in the case of Transportation they are 50 cent dollars. Anything else we should know about regarding the municipal contribution? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. The honourable Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, Minister Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I had the pleasure of meeting with the Honourable Andy Mitchell, who is the Secretary of State for our rural infrastructure and he indicated that it's expected that the $15 million will, in fact, be met with $15 million from either one-third, one-third, one-third with the federal government, the municipalities and the territorial government or on a 50/50 basis for non-tax-based communities with the territorial government. So, he's expecting that overall the infrastructure funding will be at least $30 million. Thank you.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The broad terms of this particular fund, as I found from consulting the federal government's website, also allowed considerable latitude in their application. It goes beyond the water and sewer kind of infrastructure. In fact, it talks about tourism, recreation, culture. We could be crossing three different departments in the eligibility. So, Mr. Speaker, I'm wondering if Minister Steen is working with his other colleagues to look at the suitability of applying these funds in areas other than hard municipal infrastructure. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. The honourable Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, Minister Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, like I responded to another Member in the House here, we're very early in the stage of consultation with the municipalities in how they would like to see this funding applied. At this point, there is indication that the water and sewage programs will be high priority, however, there are also indications that there would be some priority placed on dust control in smaller communities. We are also supporting the request from the Federation of Municipalities to have this funding applied to between a three- and five-year program rather than a 10-year program to allow for more funding at an earlier stage and to allow a lot of the municipal projects to be completed at an earlier stage. At this point in time, we haven't closed off discussions with anyone and I'd be happy to open discussions with memberships, in particular probably through the business planning process as well, to have some input from the Members as well. If possible, I don't know if we have the time or not, but it would have been nice to have the time to sit down with the AOC and see whether we can have some thought put forward on this from them before the new government. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister Steen. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Frame Lake, Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development. Mr. Speaker, last week the House passed a motion asking the government to rescind the revised business incentive policy. I'd like to ask the Minister if the government has had occasion to consider that motion and the government's response to it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. The honourable Minister of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development, Minister Antoine.

Thank you, Minister Antoine. Supplementary, Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it's difficult to congratulate the government in a question. Would the Minister agree that this is a good example of how consensus government can work?

Is that an opinion? Thank you, Mr. Dent. It borders on opinion, however, I will allow the Minister to respond. The honourable Minister of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development, Minister Antoine.

Supplementary, Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to congratulate the Minister and Cabinet for following through on that matter. Would the Minister also advise the House if the Cabinet or his department, in particular, is planning to ensure that the contract registry will track the cost of business incentive policy over the course of the next year so that we can have some accurate information to assess the program in the future? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. The honourable Minister of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development, Minister Antoine.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. The time allocated for question period has expired. Item 7, written questions. The honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta, Mr. Krutko.