Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we are one of the stakeholders and users of the service. We have an agreement with the Capital Health Authority that we just signed. As well, we have an MOU between the Northwest Territories and the Alberta Government that covers a host of issues including transportation and health ones. So, we have a venue to make the case. We have articulated our concerns, and the City of Edmonton is dealing with it as a municipal issue. Thank you.

Final supplementary, Mr. Delorey.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, medevacs from anywhere, I guess, don't come very cheap and especially from the North getting down to Alberta. I know, in looking at some of the documents on medevacs, that we also provide medevacs for Nunavut patients. I was wondering if the Minister could inform us what kind of arrangement we have with Nunavut, as far as medevacing patients from Nunavut? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Minister of Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the arrangement that we have with Nunavut is if there are patients here that require further, more specialized services than can be offered here, then the medical arrangements are made through Stanton and then we have a billing back arrangement with Nunavut that covers the costs.

Thank you. Item 6, oral questions. Member for Frame Lake, Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question today is for the Minister responsible for the Financial Management Board Secretariat. Yesterday, in committee of the whole I was asking the Minister about loan guarantees and he advised the House that the government had to make good on a $2.6 million loan guarantee, which apparently the parent company is going to pay back over a five to 10-year period without interest. Is there a reason that the section of government that deals with loan guarantees for emerging businesses is within the Executive and within the FMBS?

Minister responsible for the FMBS, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, I would have to check back in the previous government to find out exactly why it was put in the FMBS and why it wasn't instead put into the Business Credit Corporation, for example, who also have the authority to give loan guarantees. I expect, Mr. Speaker, that the reason was that we, as a government wanted to maintain hands-on on the loan guarantees. Also the amount of the loan guarantees could quickly use up the surplus positions or money the Business Credit Corporation would have available to it. So I expect those are the reasons, but I would have to check with the previous government to find out exactly why.

Supplementary, Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I know the Business Credit Corporation has a cap of some $50 million and I don't believe it's very close to that $50 million right now. So would the Minister look into why this is being maintained and get back to this House as to whether or not there's a reason to shift the position of the loan guarantees?

Minister responsible for the FMBS, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, certainly I will look into that. There may be reasons to change the arrangement, I am not sure yet, particularly when we are creating the new business corporation that the Minister of RWED is looking at right now. I will look into it, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Supplementary, Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It would appear that we have three different agencies involved now. We have RWED, the Business Credit Corporation and we are going to have the new super corporation the Minister just referred to and we have FMBS. This would tend to indicate that we have a number of people involved in assessing the financial risk of a new business in the Northwest Territories. Would there not probably be savings in people if we were to consolidate this?

Minister responsible for the FMBS, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, there really are only two agencies involved in the loan guarantees. That's the Business Credit Corporation, which is operated by a board appointed by the Minister of RWED and then we are doing it through the FMBS. Would there be savings if we were to do some of the collapsing? I think that's exactly the question we are looking at through the deputy ministers' task teams that will be reporting to us and all of the Members. Thank you.

Item 6, oral questions. Member for Deh Cho, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as a result of the line of questions and my Member's statements regarding the harmonization issues over the last couple of days, I have had a lot of phone inquiries regarding education, health and housing when it comes to Aboriginal commitments by this government. I would like to ask the Premier if he could tell me if there is a way to break out what the dollars are within our formula finances and within our budgets that are committed to Aboriginal people. Thank you.

The question is directed to the Premier. Mr. Kakfwi. Mr. Handley, Minister of Finance.

It would be very difficult to break it out exactly what percentage of the budget is for Aboriginal people versus other people in the Territories. I suppose there could be estimates done by departments, but it would be a very difficult task to try to be exact with that. Thank you.

Supplementary, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This has been an area that's been fairly hard to distinguish what dollar is earmarked for what. Can the Minister indicate if there are any dollars that are very clearly identified for Aboriginal people in the North? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Minister of Finance, Mr. Handley.