Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I also think that this act needs to be amended to include not only the people working for this government directly, but for people that are working for this government indirectly. By indirectly, I am talking about community services boards, which are a creation of this government to deliver services on the behalf of the territorial government, the same thing the territorial government is doing for the federal government.

We have different employers out there. We have federal government public servants, we have local public servants, municipal public servants and we have people working for the different divisional boards, community service boards, that are delivering programs on our behalf. We are paying them less money because we are giving them the programs that we do not wish to do, or our government employees in the first place did not want to go in there. So what we do is give them a little bit of money there and say, okay, this will cover your overhead, go and deliver the program. It does not matter what you pay your employees, go forward with it. That is what we are telling them by putting this legislation in just to cover the employees that we have under the government right now.

I was one of the Members that was not in agreement with dealing only with public servants. I wanted to do this territory-wide under a labour act of some kind like the rest of the provinces. Most of the provinces have some kind of act that covers all employees and employers in their territories and provinces.

Right now, I look at this whole thing as if we are saying we want to protect their rights. But we all know that some of our government bureaucrats are getting quite a good paycheque out there to do a job similar to what is being done in the smaller communities. That is against the human rights. We are asking these people to deliver programs on our behalf and they do not have the same rights as the person that is working in Yellowknife or another different community that is covered by the Public Service Act.

There is one of the labour boards that I was listening to on the radio one day saying that this government is creating different tiers of public service, different tiers of payment. It is against the Human Rights Act. So I agree with Mr. Krutko that we need to make some changes. I understand the Minister is saying that we should not go there until we have assessed the whole thing. Well, why did we not assess it and then go there? Why are we just rushing into this one? I understand there is section 66 that we are trying to have given to us by Ottawa, but what does that do? What is it doing? Is it protecting high wages or what is it doing? Is it protecting the bonuses? What are we doing here? We do not know. We do not know what kind of equal wages are out there.

I know this government went through an exercise and it was a costly exercise to do what they have done. We are saying that the small businessman cannot do it. I think if there is a will there is a way. If it is not going to work then we can always go back and say it is not going to work, but there are some amendments we need to make, there are some changes we need to make and let us do it in this way. But before we have even gone out there to the public and asked them what they thought, what the small businessman thought or what the large industry thought, we are just going ahead and doing what we want as a government. We are supposed to be out there consulting with the people to make sure that what we are doing is fair to all of them. They have a right to know what we are doing. We create Human Rights Acts and everything without consulting with people. In other areas of different acts we have done in this government, we have not even stepped foot out of Yellowknife and we have dealt with acts. This government is doing things the way they feel is right. They are not going out there and consulting with the public. There are a few things that were done with consultation with the public and the people are happy for that out there. They have input into what is going on and that is what the whole territory is all about.

So I think that if we cannot make these amendments, maybe we should just scrap this bill for now and look at it more. Like the Minister said, we should assess the whole thing and we should not go there until we have assessed it. Using his own words, I hope he will pull his own bill. Thank you very much.