Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, our focus has been to continue working with the ones that are in the Northwest Territories. There is a policy within the government about the secondary industry and we have avenues for that support. Our goal is to minimize that area of the Government of the Northwest Territories and tighten it up. Through this process, we have done that. For example, any loan guarantee would have a lifetime of five years before we'd have to be released from that. So that's one of the things that we've done in that area, but our goal is to work with the existing operations we have and we're not going out and seeking further parties for new operations at this time. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Hay River South, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. The honourable Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have been working with our colleagues in the DECs to try and come up with an accountability structure, to make sure that the funding that we provide to the boards is being spent as it should be -- to provide needs to students with special needs -- and it hasn't been issued as a directive at this point, but we are working with them.

I'm hoping that fairly shortly we will be able to outline better what our expectations are. The boards now clearly understand what we're looking for. There's been a significant amount of discussion. The important factor is to define how the money should be spent, while leaving enough flexibility for local boards to deal with the local problems that they face; that's where we are right now with it.

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

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm not certain as to the answer to that question. If there are students in the public system or publicly-funded system, their board would have to be responsible for assisting or for allocating funds to put a student in a special service, if that was found, and that would have to be acceptable to the parents. So it has to be a local solution, because the DEC or DEA has the money to work with kids with special needs and they would have to allocate how it is being spent. Thank you.

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

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Dent.

Mr. Speaker, it could be financed through contributions from DECs or DEAs. The department does not provide funding directly to any institution to provide schooling to NWT residents, but we do know that there are some DECs and DEAs that provide, by way of contract, funding to alternate schools to provide schooling to some of their students. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Final supplementary, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, would the DEA in Hay River right now be able to divert special needs funding for alternative school options? Something within the community not under contract to someone else, but within the mandate of their school budget, could they develop an alternative? Thank you.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Dent.

Mr. Speaker, I suspect that they could. It would have to work within the parameters that we are setting up. But I think that the discussions are far enough along in terms of what's expected for school districts to be able to know whether or not what they're proposing would fit into the system. So I would suggest that the DEA needs to talk to the South Slave Divisional Education Council to get an understanding, but in all likelihood the answer is yes.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Kam Lake, Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to direct my questions today to the Minister of Finance, Mr. Roland. It gets back to diamonds and the Government of the Northwest Territories' involvement in the secondary diamond industry here in the Northwest Territories. I've heard the Minister of Finance and the Minister of RWED stand up here in the House and say maybe we have to re-evaluate where we're going. My questions get back to that re-evaluation. I think any time you have a look at something you have to know exactly what it is you're talking about in order to make a decision. I haven't seen much in terms of evidence to indicate one way or another what Regular Members on this side of the House should do with the secondary diamond industry. So I'd like to ask the Minister of Finance when Members might be able to expect a cost-benefit analysis of the secondary industry here in the Northwest Territories. I'm talking about the government's investment from 1998 to 2004. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. The honourable Minister responsible for the Financial Management Board Secretariat, Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as part of the process that we have initiated within FMBS is to review just what the Member has been discussing and beginning to put that work together on doing a cost-benefit analysis around the secondary industry around diamonds. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Supplementary, Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I mentioned in my statement today that I believe there should be an inquiry, an investigation as to what happened with the Leviev Group and why their proposal to take over the Sirius plant failed. They weren't able to get diamonds from the producers. Coupled with that is the discussion around what the investment the Government of the Northwest Territories has into the secondary industry and I'd like to ask the Minister of Finance if he would support an inquiry, an investigation to get to the bottom of what exactly happened and what the GNWT's role in all of this was. Thank you.