Mr. Speaker, the arrangement we got was that, for a period of 10 years, Sirius would have exclusive use on the girdle of their diamonds. I don't know of any other company that wants to use the polar bear on their diamonds. The other manufacturers have chosen to use other symbols to identify their diamonds. I don't know if this is as big a problem as it seems, but for the time being, we were able to come to a settlement and this is one of the conditions. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Honourable Jim Antoine, Deputy Premier. My question is going back to the June session when I asked the Deputy Premier if he would ensure that all his Cabinet Ministers get a briefing on how consensus government works. I would like to ask the Deputy Premier if that has been done. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we didn't have a briefing exclusively talking about consensus government. I don't think we practice consensus government, our form of consensus government which is different from any other type of government in this country, in other jurisdictions except for Nunavut. So we understand the concern there. We actually practice it, so I don't know if we need a briefing. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We may be practicing it. We haven't gotten down to the key, I guess, if you can say that. We say everyday in the House here we have to ask questions on expenditures on behalf of the NWT being done without input of other Members through supplementary appropriations and special warrants, funds being transferred from project to project. During the next few months, we are creating a transition document. I would like to ask him if he can make sure that the Cabinet is briefed on how consensus government works and how we can go into the next government with a real consensus government. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, I understand that the Member is concerned about the way we operate as a government and we have been very open and transparent as we can be, as a government, more so than at the beginning of the session. I think we have developed processes that we work with Members on the other side through the whole budgeting process. In fact, we go through the budgeting process twice behind closed doors before we take it out here with the process we just ended a few days ago with the main estimates. There are different situations that arise and different requests that come. There is the request of the addition of dollars in one project or another in different communities. Those types of issues come to Cabinet and we consider them. If it's money, it goes to FMB and perhaps the question there is that Members would like to know as soon as possible when different requests for additional dollars go before Cabinet and FMB. Perhaps that is what the request is. If I am anticipating the concern properly, perhaps we should find a mechanism to inform them as quickly as possible whenever a project is considered that is of an emergency nature and there are extraordinary decisions made above and beyond the normal process. Perhaps that is the thing we should be considering here. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. During my questioning in June, the Deputy Premier had given me an answer. "As a government, we have the responsibility to make sure that our budget is in place and that we should follow it as much as we can. Major initiatives are required up here, especially the infrastructure money, we all need that." In this session, we've had so many questions coming up on how things were done and how things were not done, also initiatives that raise question marks. If we were a consensus government, we would have been able to get all these answers ahead of time before the expenditures, but that isn't happening. I would like to ask the Deputy Premier... we are going into an election soon and there's a document out there that Members have input in, if he could make sure he has input into that and try to make some changes, so we would have a better government in the future. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I think the Member is referring to the initiative of the preparation of transition document. We will be looking at what we are doing here in terms of the different initiatives and what may be flowing after the next election. I don't know the time frame of when this document is going to be ready, how it's going to get ready. I will check on that and get back with that information to the Member. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to ask once again if he could make sure that briefings on consensus government and how consensus government is done will be available for future governments, so they can have that input into the transition document. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, yes, I will check on this document and see what stage it's at and make sure that, at some point in time, once it's put together or even before it's finalized in the development stages, the MLAs are included in the process. Thank you.