Final supplementary, Mr. Nitah.

Minister of MACA, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there has been, over the last couple of years since I have been Minister of MACA, some dissatisfaction with Sport North and how they spend their funding. However, that's the purpose of the creation of the sports board, which would give direction to Sport North as to how they would be spending their funding in the future. It is the intent of MACA to see some of that funding go to the grassroots communities as well. How that's going to happen is we will leave that up to the board to create their own plans. In relation to the reason for the creation of the youth secretariat, Mr. Speaker, as I said earlier, the youth secretariat was created specifically to address youth and to encourage active living of youth and also there is no doubt there is going to be some overlap between youth activities in sports and MACA sports and recreation activities. You can't help having some overlap, but we will try to limit it by working together, so that we can take as much advantage of our funding as possible. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Item 6, oral questions. Member for Hay River South, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in my Member's statement today, I talked about the inclusion of municipalities under the NWT Access to Information and Protection of Privacy legislation. Mr. Speaker, we have a very conscientious and diligent ATIPP commissioner, in my opinion. She has brought forward this issue in three annual reports and the government has made numerous commitments to follow up on this recommendation. It would appear that municipalities are in support of it. This government seems to have indicated its support of it, certainly AOC is in support of it. I am wondering what's the hold up on having this discussion and making this amendment to this legislation. Thank you.

Mrs. Groenewegen, with your to your question, there is an item in Committee of the Whole that deals with this matter, so it may be inappropriate to ask this question at this time knowing that it is in Committee of the Whole for debate. Mrs. Groenewegen, could you rephrase your question?

The question is appropriate. Minister of MACA, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, since I have been Minister of MACA, we haven't undertaken any initiatives in relation to including municipalities under the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act. There was a meeting held between MACA, the Department of Justice and local government administrators on September 28, 2001. At that time, there was a discussion about the pros and cons of including municipalities under the access to information act. We've been advised that it would add to the records management cost of communities and it would be significant and training would be time consuming and the act could not be applied to bands because bands are under federal legislation. So there have been no discussions with either individuals, communities, or the NWTAM as to whether or not there is any support to have this included under the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Supplementary, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I believe this is a very important issue and I raise it on behalf of my constituents, at least. Mr. Speaker, the NWT Association of Communities meets annually and I believe there will be another meeting of the communities coming up in the spring. I was wondering if the Minister would undertake to secure some kind of time on that schedule, that agenda, to discuss this important issue with them. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Minister of MACA, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I can certainly take this up with the NWT Association of Communities and have them discuss it at their next annual meeting. However, I doubt very much if there will be any changes to the act before this government's time is up. I will certainly take it up with the association of communities to see if we can develop support for this initiative.

Thank you. Item 6, oral questions. Member for North Slave, Mr. Lafferty.

Minister of Transportation, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, I carried on where the former Minister of Transportation had left off. At that time, the current road alignment had been used for a number of years and is still being used. There has been no change.

Supplementary, Mr. Lafferty.

Minister of Transportation, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, I have carried on with the same agreement that was made by the former Minister in November 2001. I did have one meeting that I recall with the Grand Chief and with two or three of the chiefs -- I can't remember exactly how many. At that time, I told them that I would continue with the same commitment that had been made by Mr. Steen. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Supplementary, Mr. Lafferty.