Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have looked into this matter, and my understanding is that the community was only supposed to get four units, and they

ended up getting an additional four. The four units were part of the original proposal, and the four units that are presently being worked on using the local housing authority to conclude that work, so it is done locally, done in the community, and the dollars remain in the community. It is presently being handled by the local housing authority.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Supplementary, Mr. Villeneuve.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I know that there are currently four that are being worked on today, but, again, it has been five years that they have been working on these projects. Why is there a sudden surge in letting the LHO take on this project? Who had it before the LHO? Who was sitting on it prior to the LHO? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. Krutko.

Mr. Speaker, as I said earlier, we have concluded four units which were part of the original allocation to the community Lutselk'e. There were an additional four units given after the original allocations were given. Because of that, the decision was made that the local housing authority would do this within their own forces and keep the work in the community. The decision was between the local housing authority and the regional office.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Supplementary, Mr. Villeneuve.

Thank you. There are four units, right now, without any of them being completed, plus another four that are probably going to be coming down the road. I just want to ask the Minister, when can the residents expect these four units to be completed? I know the LHO or the Housing Corporation have project officers overseeing the construction and the move of these houses onto properties. When can the residents expect them to be ready for occupancy, Mr. Speaker? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are hoping to have the units concluded by next summer.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Final supplementary, Mr. Villeneuve. Item 7, oral questions. The honourable Member for Nahendeh, Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. The honourable Minister of Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Firstly, I would like to encourage everybody to take advantage of getting their flu shot this fall and winter, which is recommended by practitioners and by public health people as a good step, in any event.

Doctor Corriveau, our medical director for the Northwest Territories, sits on the national board, and they have been working on what would happen nationally, should there be an event of this nature. He has indicated to me that in the Northwest Territories we are seen as a very low risk area, given our small population, the fact that we are off the beaten track, and we don't have a lot of contact with live poultry and other types of birds that are seen to be the potential carriers of this flu. Thank you.

Thank you Mr. Miltenberger. Supplementary, Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. The fear that is out there in the public is still very real, Mr. Speaker. Maybe the Minister can detail what, exactly, our government is planning right now. What kind of planning do we have? What are we going to do to inform the public about the possible avian flu outbreak or, in general, just to get the information out there to our public? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The big point initially is to tell people that they need not fear, at this point. Yes, take precautions, get your flu shot, do all the things that you are supposed to do -- wash your hands -- do all the things that they learned with SARS, and all the things that they are recommending with the outbreak of the flu.

We have stockpiled some flu shots, we have had discussions with the authorities and the medical people in authorities overseen by Doctor Corriveau, that, should the need arise, we will have a plan that we will be able to move into place. We do offer all the current flu shots for the current flu season, as well. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Supplementary, Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I guess what is happening is that the people aren't getting this information. I think we are going to need to step up the campaign of getting information out, because this is very serious stuff. The greatest, biggest outbreak was, of course, the Spanish influenza of 1918, and that affected everybody in the whole world. That is the fear here, Mr. Speaker. Are any of our staff being trained in this particular issue, Mr. Speaker? They are saying in the media that the bird flu virus is very, very hard to diagnose as that particular strain of H5N1. What guarantees do we have that our people would not be misdiagnosed? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The medical professionals have identified the Northwest Territories as a very low risk. We have some flu vaccine that we have stored. We are encouraging everybody to get their flu shots this year, take all the other common precautions that you would take. If somebody is feeling unwell, they go to their nearest health centre there -- the nurses and the doctors there -- to get a service. This is not an issue where we want to have people stampeding to health centres because they think, because they have been listening to the press, that this is an imminent danger for us up here in Canada. It has been diagnosed as low risk. We know that it is moving around. We know that it hasn't mutated to be able to go from human to human yet, as far as we know, and that the Northwest Territories is considered a very low risk area. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Final supplementary, Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. That just begs the next logical question in regard to crisis management. What kind of crisis management teams do we have set up in our regions and communities to handle, particularly, medical emergency outbreaks that will affect all our people? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Miltenberger.