Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am confused more, then, why we have a Cabinet Minister in control of the WCB. If it's just a rubberstamp that they can go buy land, I don't know why we even bother. Mr. Speaker, I have heard the WCB wants to build a building right next to the Stanton Territorial Hospital because of access for disabled and injured workers, so they can get treatment. I have taken my own son to Stanton hospital while it's busy, and they say go to the downtown clinics because that's what they are there for. So we have just invested tons of money into Great Slave Medical Clinic...

Do you have a question, Mr. Hawkins?

Yes, sir. Why are we building a building out near Stanton hospital when the downtown Great Slave Clinic would work just fine, and that we have already spent tons of money on? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I understand it, it was to be close to rehabilitation services that are provided only at Stanton. A good number of the clients of WCB are involved in taking rehabilitation.

Mr. Speaker, the Member asks, why do we have a Minister responsible for the WCB? My actions are, as Minister responsible, for administering the act, not for administering the WCB. My role is one that I can make, or recommend, changes for the act, and I can make recommendations, along with the Minister from Nunavut, for changes to the board membership. The WCB is an independent entity, which is a non-profit insurance company basically, that provides insurance for our workers whose fees are paid for by the companies in the Northwest Territories. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Item 7, oral questions. The honourable Member for Hay River South, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, last May, I got a commitment in this House from the Minister of Justice, the Honourable Brendan Bell, to revisit the decision to close the remand centre in the South Mackenzie Correctional Centre, in the community of Hay River, to see if the projected savings would be realized. The Minister also stated that he had instructed the RCMP, and the department, to keep tabs on the additional costs that transporting remand prisoners to Yellowknife would result in. We are now five months past that commitment, and I am wondering if the Minister could provide the House with the status of how that monitoring is going. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. The honourable Minister of Justice, Mr. Bell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, I made the commitment. We have asked the RCMP to track the workload related to remand closure and having to send the highest risk remand inmates to Yellowknife. They have been doing that. We are tracking and monitoring that. We will certainly be able, at year's end, to provide the data to the Members of the House. The one obvious difficulty we are going to have is -- I can give you the information for this year -- it will be difficult to go back into years past because we weren't doing the tracking specifically of this issue. I am not sure we will have much of a baseline, but we will have one year of data. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Bell. Supplementary, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The whole crux of my argument, and time, was that projected cost savings of $267,000 wasn't a savings at all, because it was just costs that were going to be incurred by somebody else, for example, the RCMP and guards at RCMP detachments. I don't know how we are going to quantify, then, if the department actually saved $267,000. Maybe, Mr. Speaker, the Minister could tell me that in the February sitting; we will then be more than three-quarters of the way into this one-year exercise. Would the Minister be prepared, at that time, to table some kind of analysis on how we are doing on our target of savings of $267,000? Thank you.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Bell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I can provide that information, and we can have that discussion and make an assessment at that point. I think the February session provides a fair amount of time to do that analysis, and I am prepared to do that.

Thank you, Mr. Bell. Supplementary, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, if my assertions that there is no $267,000 of savings turn out to be correct, Mr. Speaker, it would follow, then, that we would revisit the issue of the remand capacity in the South Mackenzie Correctional Centre. Is that correct? Thank you.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Bell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The premise, clearly, was that we would save money. We would have saved more money if we had laid people off. The plan was to realize savings through attrition, but my latest briefing note does indicate that the savings the department has calculated to August 31st is over $100,000. I will have more complete data at that point in February, and we can have a discussion. Again, it was a projection. I think we need to be in the range, and in the ballpark, but I think we will be able to look at that information and have an informed discussion, and I look forward to that. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Bell. Item 7, oral questions. The honourable Member for Sahtu, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. The honourable Minister responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation, Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, right now, roughly the cost of construction from the bids that we have sent out lately is somewhere in the $260 range with regard to construction, and Novel is about $100 a square metre.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Supplementary, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Minister said $260 versus $100, a house versus a trailer. Can you give us a total cost of a stick-built unit in the Tulita area, or Colville, versus what it's going to cost us to have these proposed Novel trailers in our communities? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Krutko.