Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, information that we provided since division that would include health boards and education boards were more in the range of 3,740 employees in March of 1999. In March of 2004, we were in the area of 4,500 people employed by the Government of the Northwest Territories. A large part of those were in the area of departmental increases, such as 14 percent of the growth in education; 51 percent of the growth in health services; and, agencies like the Housing Corporation and WCB were about 17 percent. We took in a lot of the operations that were outside of the GNWT.
We do have to watch the growth of government. We do have to keep track of that and we can't allow ourselves to continue growing uncontrolled. That's one of the exercises that we have entered into and that's why you see this budget coming up having a growth of less than one percent compared to this year we are in, 2004-05. So we are doing that. Yes, we do have to be concerned and watch how the budget grows in the area of services. Thank you.