Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will keep my comments fairly brief. I appreciated the fact that we had the opportunity to go through the public hearing on these three amendments on Tuesday. I certainly can feel for the municipalities in their need to get these amendments approved and get on with life. I will be supporting the amendments as they stand. The one quick issue that I wanted to bring up, and I don't know if it's the way things are normally done, but we had the public hearing on Tuesday and somehow something funny happened right after that meeting obviously, because I think the department went back and consulted with the NWTAC after the public meeting and raised some alarm bells with the Yellowknife city councillors. We got a number of phone calls and e-mails yesterday for whatever reason. I think it was much to do about nothing. I would like to know, Mr. Chairman, if the Minister can tell me who
consulted with the Northwest Territories Association of Communities. If we have legislation before us dealing with the Housing Corporation and we go through a public hearing, does the Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation go over and consult with the LHOs? The same can be said for any one of the departments. Is this a common occurrence? If it is, I would like to know because certainly if the Northwest Territories Association of Communities had some questions or concerns, they could have been at the public hearing the other day. I came away yesterday thinking that the City of Yellowknife thought that the Yellowknife MLAs were adamantly opposed to these amendments, and they're not. I didn't hear that at the meeting the other day. We asked some simple questions. That's our job. I would like to ask the Minister for a response. Thank you.