Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to pursue a little bit more of the concerns about the lack of social prominence profile in the pipeline preparation office. I am looking at some correspondence, Mr. Chairman, between the president of the Status of Women Council of the Northwest Territories and the Premier. This is quite recent correspondence. In it the Status of Women Council again flags their concerns over social impacts; where are these concerns being addressed. The Premier, in part of his reply, indicated that the issues raised concerning social impacts will receive a high profile within the Government of the Northwest Territories. I guess my point here, Mr. Chairman, is that I would challenge the government on the lack of profile that it has given pipeline preparation on the social impacts side, especially given that it has been in front of us for years now, Mr. Chairman. Given that we have decided to go into debt in areas such as legal aid and for literacy and language nests, I don't want at all to be seen as being critical of the value of those programs, but an area there, Mr. Chair, is when the government hears sort of sturdy resounding support for a given program such as...I believe several Members of our committee were strong on the loss, through the last budget process, of the language nests. Mr. Hawkins individually pressed on the issue of legal aid, and we see now that those are two issues that our government has chosen to give profile to; in fact, go into debt for. Why then or how is it that we can't see something as significant as the impact in this area, and not take it on? It would be really easy here for the government to take on and say oh, gee, you know the people on the other side really think this is a good program, we'll just go out and take on more debt, which is another aspect of this supp, Mr. Chairman, that I am uncomfortable with. The Ministers take signals from us seemingly as approval to go into new debt, and I sure don't like that. When I speak in support of something or regret that it is not there anymore, that doesn't mean that I am signing a new line of credit that they can just dig us deeper into the hole. If that is the way they are going to operate, then I must insist that they should come back to committee and say look you guys, if you really think this is a good idea, are you prepared to go as far as going into debt for it. Come back and ask us that, please. I feel very uncomfortable with some of the things that are in this supp. As good as they are, they are forcing us into more debt, and I put that forward as a criticism of the way some of these things have been managed.

The lack of profile and prominence on social impacts in the pipeline preparation remains, Mr. Chairman, a significant concern of mine. I haven't heard yet that the Minister or this government has a plan for that. Mr. Roland has indicated, and I am not arguing, that gosh we just don't have the cash to take on these responsibilities, we are still coordinating with those departments. It is pretty flimsy actually, Mr. Chairman. You know we seem to be prepared to go into debt to finance regulatory and paper pushing kinds of jobs, necessary ones, but where is the emphasis on the social side? We don't seem to get it. I guess I would leave it there, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.