Thank you, Mr. Chair. The system that has been established in the territory is a board system that encompasses a number of communities and this was established in that fashion. There were difficulties with regard to the relationships between the Hay River board and communities at the board level, and so we did commission a group to look at how we could help address the particular concerns. That report came forward and added a number of recommendations. The recommendations, I believe, we implemented and it seemed for a period of time to work.

Recently there was a concern expressed about some funding that was split among a number of communities, and that has been raised again. On the question of Hay River wanting its own board, I appreciate the Member commenting that money shouldn't be the issue, but it does enter in to it. It's additionally an issue, Mr. Chair, if every board has difficulties that can't be addressed outside of the funding issue. Then we may have a lot of other boards asking the same question, why can't they just go independently and create their own board and administer it directly and then we could end up with a lot of other boards in the Territories, which does become expensive and we would have to be concerned about that, Mr. Chair. We recognize that there seems to be an ongoing question of communication between the boards and the South Slave, and I think it is important for us to work on that.

I am not sure I have the answer for the particular board, however, without addressing the whole question of if they wish to set up their own board, how to address that without getting into the financial aspects of it. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.