Thank you, Mr. Minister. Your final supplementary, Mr. Braden.

Mr. Speaker, then given the Minister's acknowledgement that some more consultation could be done on the issue of high and sustained rent control, will the Minister commit to bringing back to this Assembly an earnest and much more serious consideration of this petition? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. The honourable Minister of Justice, Minister Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. If I may speak to some of the context here, I'm also meeting with my Yukon colleague on the 23rd of June to look at how they have implemented some of their program administration. As well, I will continue to speak with my colleague from Nunavut, and work out some mechanism where we have input from a cost analysis perspective. Yes, I am prepared to consider all the points that my honourable colleague made. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Range Lake, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. The honourable Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I've been informed by the department that when the department originally was receiving the concerns and complaints from the smaller communities and the smaller territorial sports organizations about lack of representation, lack of opportunity at the Sport North board level, the Minister at the time did give Sport North the opportunity to respond to these concerns and to restructure the board to address these concerns. What I've been told and what I said yesterday, was Sport North did not choose to do this, which really left the department with little choice but to go back to these people that were raising these concerns and ask them what they would suggest as an alternative. What came out of that was the suggestion for a territory-wide board, which would allow for participation from small communities and by the smaller types of sports organizations to have some say as to how the lottery money was spent, as well as to how smaller communities could participate in sports activities. That was what originally happened. Sport North has been involved up until now with meetings with the other sports organizations and with the regional recreation groups as well as the department, trying to resolve this thing. Up until the 25th, they did agree, although somewhat reluctantly, to form the territorial Sport North. At the 25th meeting, the department explained to the Sport North board how we expected this board to be constructed, and what the timelines were to put it in place. That's what I have up to now, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I don't think it's very valuable for us to repeat the same questions and answers over and over. I just want to simply state to the Minister and ask the Minister to follow up on this, that it is true that Sport North has been involved, but they have been involved under some conditions and concerns that they have that want to get incorporated. They're not going to support, I don't believe, a territorial board unless those very important concerns are raised. Now the Minister is saying only because they are participating, they are in agreement with what's going on. I would suggest to him that that's not the case. The Minister has already indicated yesterday he has lots of questions about this. He should be paying more attention to some of the major concerns the board has, and act accordingly. Would he do that, Mr. Speaker?

Thank you, Ms. Lee. The honourable Minister of MACA, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'm just as concerned as the Member is as to where Sport North is in relation to accepting this board. Up to now, it was indicated to me that, although reluctantly, they did in fact agree to forming this new board. So I'm prepared to approach the president of Sport North, and sit down and see what exactly we can do to resolve this issue; whether or not in fact we're going to end up putting the board in place or some other alternative to the board. I am not sure that we're going to be able to resolve this in the near future, but I'm opening the door to consultations with Sport North. Hopefully, I'll have input from the other sports organizations and the recreation boards as well. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Supplementary, Ms. Lee.

Thank you. I have a question that I'm hoping could... Well, Mr. Speaker, first of all I want to say that I have not been talking to either the president of the board or the board of directors or staff of Sport North. I don't want anybody to get into trouble on this one, if that's the case. I want to say that I'm hearing from the volunteers who know about the work of Sport North. Having said that, my question to the Minister is would the Minister make a commitment to meet with the president of Sport North, listen to his concerns and get the reply and do it in writing and present it in this House? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. The honourable Minister of MACA, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have said already I am committed to meeting with the president. At the present time, I am told that the president is out of the territory, but he will be back in a week or so and we would then set up a meeting and take it from there. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Your final supplementary, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate his commitment to the first part of my question, but the second part of the question is will the Minister report to this House in writing, within the next 90 days, as to what the concerns of the president were and what his replies to those concerns are? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. The honourable Minister of MACA, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I said, I can't commit to meeting with the president before the House closes because he's not in the territory. I have committed to meeting with the president, responding to his issues, and report those issues back to the House, but I can't guarantee it's going to be by Friday.

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

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. The honourable Minister of Transportation, Mr. Handley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm assuming Mr. Lafferty means for people to read, not the buffalo.

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Mr. Speaker, I agree, a collision with a buffalo can be a pretty serious happening and one that we don't want to treat lightly. I made note of the Member's statement and, yes, we will take a look at it. If it is a serious situation and we find that buffalo are migrating further and further toward Rae and, in fact, toward Yellowknife, then we may need to change our signs, to put more in this direction. Thank you.