Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The response to the report, which we just released last week, was largely done within government. It was done with representatives from Justice, Education, Culture and Employment and Health and Social Services with the special advisors to the Minister responsible for the Status of Women. Outside agencies were brought in. For

instance, the executive director of the NWT Status of Women was offered on many occasions an opportunity to be briefed and comment on the public education plan, but, unfortunately, that did not get responded to, so that briefing never took place. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Supplementary, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we all know that there are many NGOs across the territory in our communities that are involved with family violence. So I would like to know which NGOs in the Northwest Territories were invited to sit with these government departments that you've listed to form the Coalition Against Family Violence. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Dent.

Mr. Speaker, I apologize; I don't have a copy of the report in front of me and I can't name off the outside organizations that were invited. So I don't have that information in front of me right now. Sorry, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Supplementary, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Could the Minister please confirm for me then that the Coalition Against Family Violence did constitute more than the government departments that he just listed as full participants? Thank you.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Coalition Against Family Violence was a large number of groups that included federal agencies as well as territorial and non-government agencies. The response that I brought forward last week was our response to their report. So the response did not have everybody from the coalition at the table. It was developed as a government response, so it wasn't exactly the same group that was involved in developing that response. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Final Supplementary, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, so could the Minister then just confirm for me that the NWT Status of Women's Council was invited in the preparation of the NWT Action Plan on Family Violence? Were they invited to be full participants in developing that action plan? Thank you.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it was a government response to the coalition's recommendations, so outside agencies weren't necessarily invited to be full partners. However, an invitation was extended on numerous occasions to the executive director of the NWT Status of Women to attend and be briefed on the status of the development of the response. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Item 7, oral questions. The honourable Member for Kam Lake, Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. The honourable Premier, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, the supply of those turbines was done after looking at a number of models and, in fact, several visits to the plant and the office; I can't remember if it was in Calgary or Edmonton. This was a joint project done with the Town of Inuvik. Mr. Speaker, that's some time ago and I don't know the nature of the warranty on it although, as I recall, there were a number of visits by the people who provided those gas turbines. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Handley. Supplementary, Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Is it the policy of the Northwest Territories Power Corporation to purchase equipment valued at half-a-million dollars without proper warranties or service contracts attached to those pieces of equipment, because the two microturbines were only there for two years? Mr. Speaker, I am wondering if the Premier can state that that's the policy of the Power Corporation, that they don't really mind if there is no warranty or guarantee on pieces of equipment that cost the Power Corporation half-a-million dollars. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, those kinds of gas turbines are new technology. There are warranties on them, but when the Power Corporation looks at new ways of saving energy costs, it sometimes has to take some risk. The turbines that are provided in Inuvik are the same ones that I saw at one time myself in a recreation facility at one of the community colleges in Alberta. There was, by the corporation, as much due diligence on making sure that they were buying something that was reasonably sure. The company that provided them still does business there and does the service work that is essential. There have been problems, there's no doubt about that; but, again, it's new technology and we must continually be reaching out, although we don't want to be too far out front of the technology where we do increase the risk too much. Mr. Speaker, this is typical in these kinds of projects. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Handley. Supplementary, Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it seems quite a risky decision to spend half-a-million dollars on two cutting-edge microturbines to be placed in Inuvik, which is, as we all know, far removed from a major centre where they could get some servicing on the pieces of equipment. I know that the Power Corporation is going to try to run these two microturbines for another year and I am wondering if the Premier can advise us...I know they had to go out and get a new service contract to look after these microturbines. Can the Premier tell us today what that's going to cost the Power Corporation to get a new service contract in place for these microturbines? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Handley.