Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am pleased to introduce Bill 11, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 2, 2005-2006. This bill requests authority for additional appropriations of $63.719 million for operation expenditures, and $3.034 million for capital investment expenditures, in the 2005-2006 fiscal year.

Major items included in this request for operation expenditures are as follows:

• • a total of $16.4 million for the additional expenses resulting from the finalization of the Collective Agreement between the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Union of Northern Workers;
• • $20 million for the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs to provide contribution funding to communities pursuant to the community capacity building initiative. These contributions are funded by the federal government's Northern Strategy trust fund;
• • $3.5 million for the Department of Education, Culture and Employment for the provision of French and aboriginal language services in the NWT. The expenses will be fully offset by the revenues from the federal government;
• • $2 million for the Department of Education, Culture and Employment for additional expenses resulting from the finalization of the Collective Agreement between the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Northwest Territories Teachers' Association;
• • $1.3 million for energy conservation initiatives to help promote energy conservation and mitigate the impact on increased energy prices for the Government of the Northwest Territories and NWT residents.

The operations funding requests are within the 2005-2006 supplementary reserve. The major requests for capital investment expenditures are as follows:

• • $2.8 million for the Department of Transportation to advance funding from the 2006-2007 fiscal year for the airport passenger terminal building in Yellowknife, as the project is ahead of schedule and is anticipated to be near completion by the end of the fiscal year;
• • a reduction of $2.1 million for the Department of Education, Culture and Employment in order to advance the joint design of construction of the Sir Alexander Mackenzie School and Samuel Hearne Secondary School projects in Inuvik.

That concludes my opening remarks. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to answer any questions Members may have.