The honourable Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation, Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, if I may just refer back to my consultation and my personal appearances before a number of aboriginal organizations, I did appear with the honourable Member for Tu Nedhe before his leadership in Edmonton. I have also met with the chief and his advisors in Calgary and in Hay River. Certainly we have an obligation to continue to consult with all the vested interest groups and I am prepared to do that. Timing-wise, Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to venture into those leadership meetings and discuss this further. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Final supplementary, Mr. McLeod.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind the Minster that he appeared before the Akaitcho chiefs as a Member of the non-tax-based communities and he wasn't there as a Minister to make a presentation on the harmonization. I don't believe he even mentioned it. I would like to ask one final request. As I mentioned before, there is a lot of concern regarding this issue. I would like to know if he would make the commitment here in this House to meet with the Aboriginal Summit and explain to them what this whole initiative is about. Thank you.

The honourable Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation, Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am not too sure if that's in my bailiwick to appear before the Aboriginal Summit. I will have to confer with my leadership here on this side of the floor. What I was referring to, Mr. Speaker, if I may, just to respond to the Member, I did appear before the leadership and at that time, I was trying to point out the harmonization was not one of the topics on the leadership's agenda. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Tu Nedhe, Mr. Nitah.

Mr. Nitah, I understand there is a motion on the floor to be debated dealing with that issue and we are dealing very closely with the debate that will take place in the motion. I am not sure whether or not I should let your question stand. If you would word it in a different way than you did ask it. Mr. Nitah.

Thank you, Mr. Nitah. The honourable Minister of Finance, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, yes, I would be pleased to provide that information. In fact, I have asked my staff to work on it. They will give us a total salary amount by community for each of the communities in the NWT. Mr. Speaker, that amount will not include those agencies and boards that are not in our PeopleSoft system because that will take a lot of work to try to integrate that. I can give a number, but it will not include those not on PeopleSoft, primarily health boards. Thank you.

Supplementary, Mr. Nitah.

The honourable Minister of Finance, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, I hope to have it tomorrow. I won't make a promise, but if not tomorrow it will be the day after. I expect to have it tomorrow. I will provide it to the Member and if the Member wants to table it in the House, that's certainly his right to do that.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Nitah.

The honourable Minister of Finance, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind the Member that we do table and make public a geographic tracking report that includes all our expenditures by community across the government. It's already available for Members. It takes awhile to put it together, but annually we file that information. It's total amounts, it's per capita amounts. There is a lot of good information in that document that's already tabled.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Final supplementary, Mr. Nitah.

The honourable Minister of Finance, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, our government is very open. We do put a lot together, say reports that detail a lot of information by community. I am not sure what the Member is asking me for. If he's suggesting a copy of that report to every community leader or if I provide some other specific information, I will do whatever I can to make sure people understand where our money is being spent and they can give me feedback on whether they feel it's a fair allocation. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.