Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we will be working with the Sahtu health board that has been set up in the Sahtu. We will be working with, of course, Inuvik through the transition period. We have the staff out of headquarters, we have the staff at the regional level, as well as the staff in the nursing stations. We've made a special effort to ensure that our protocols are up to date, that we have the proper checks and balances in place to ensure that the issue of TB is front and centre, and we encourage people to get checked. So we are going to be working with all the communities in the Northwest Territories to make sure that we stay on top of the issue of TB.

Supplementary, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to ask the Minister about the training programs. I know you have been working with the Sahtu health board and the other communities. I want to ask abut the training programs in the regions. In the report you talk about the Inuvik regional health board, the Hay River regional health board and so forth in terms of the training programs for the smaller communities; especially in the Sahtu, I'm not too sure. Has the department given any indications in terms of providing some training in the Sahtu communities in terms of the TB? Thank you.

Minister of Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I want to assure the Member that we are fully committed to involving the Sahtu, and at the time that report was drafted and written it was done when the Sahtu was still part of the Inuvik region. In any future reports, they will recognize that there is a separate health board and authority in the Sahtu. But the point of the question being that every community in the Northwest Territories is going to be paid attention to when it comes to dealing with tuberculosis. Thank you.

Final supplementary. Item 6, oral questions. Mr. Dent.

Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to return to item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery.

The Member is seeking unanimous consent to return to item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery. Are there any nays? No, there are not. You have unanimous consent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and honourable Members. Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize Mr. Jim Beaver who is with the aboriginal policing directorate. He's in the gallery today. He was attending the opening of the North Slave Correctional Centre earlier today. With him is MJ Patterson who is with the Department of Justice, the corrections policy officer. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery. Mr. Allen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Rarely do I have the opportunity to recognize family members in the gallery, and today I have the pleasure of recognizing Mr. Brian Campbell, my brother-in-law; my nephew, Josh, and his companion, Rose. Welcome to the gallery.

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Item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery. Mr. Handley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am pleased to recognize a constituent: Major Karen Hoeft. Thank you.

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Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Following Mr. Allen's comments, I would also like to recognize Brian Campbell, a one-time hockey player I think in Inuvik with the...(inaudible)...Flyers. He was a good hockey player too.

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Item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery. Item 7, written questions. Mr. Allen.

Item 7, written questions. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my written question is to the Honourable Joe Handley, Minister responsible for the NWT Power Corporation.

1. Can the Minister provide a current dollar estimate on a one-rate power structure that would provide an adequate rate of return to the NWT Power Corporation?
2. Can the Minister provide information on the project costs to maintain the NWT power subsidy program at current rates over the next five years?
3. Can the Minister provide the Assembly with information on the direction provided to the board of directors of the NWT Power Corporation in making the next general rate application?
4. Can the Minister provide information on costs incurred by the NWT Power Corporation in examining and pursuing the expansion of the hydro power system to date? This accounting should show the money provided to the Power Corporation by the GNWT, as well as the money the Power Corporation has expended from its retained earnings.

Item 7, written questions. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my written question is to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment on the harvesting assistance program.

Can the Minister confirm whether harvests' assistance payments are being clawed back from harvesters, including Sahtu, Gwich'in and/or Inuvialuit land claim beneficiaries under the income support program and, if so, can he provide the rationale for these clawbacks?

Thank you.

Item 7, written questions. Item 8, returns to written questions. Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have a return to a written question asked by Ms. Lee on March 22, 2004, regarding the request for travel expenditures by department.

Later today, at the appropriate time, I will table a report summarizing GNWT travel expenditures by department for the fiscal periods 1999-00 to 2003-04.

This report provides a summary of departmental travel expenditures for these fiscal periods, adjusted for the non-discretionary travel previously identified to Members. The information was compiled from the financial information system and has not been audited. Thank you.

Item 8 returns to written questions. Mr. Bell.