Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Item 9, replies to opening address. Item 10, petitions. Item 11, reports of standing and special committees. Item 12, reports of committees on the review of bills. The honourable Member for Range Lake, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to report that the Standing Committee on Social Programs has reviewed Bill 15, Tlicho Community Services Agency Act, and wishes to report that Bill 15 is ready for consideration in Committee of the Whole.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to also report that the Standing Committee on Social Programs has reviewed Bill 18, An Act to Amend the Territorial Court Act, and wishes to report that Bill 18 is now ready for consideration in Committee of the Whole.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. Item 12, reports of committees on the review of bills. The honourable Member for Hay River South, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to report that the Standing Committee on Governance and Economic Development has reviewed Bill 16, Northwest Territories Business Development and Investment Corporation Act, and wishes to report that Bill 16 is ready for consideration in Committee of the Whole, as amended and reprinted. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Item 12, reports of committees on the review of bills. Item 13, tabling of documents. The honourable Premier, Mr. Handley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have a number of documents for tabling. Mr. Speaker, further to my Return to Written Question 31-15(3), I wish to table the following document entitled Costs Related to Taltson and Bear River Hydro Projects. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, as well, further to my Return to Written Question 51-15(3), I wish to table the following documents entitled Fuel Spill at Jackfish Lake Power Plant and EMD Plant Day Tank Fill System Overfill Incident Investigation, October 26, 2004. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, further to my Return to Written Question 55-15(3), I wish to table the following document entitled Power Generated at Jackfish and Bluefish Plants. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, further to my Return to Written Question 64-15(3), I wish to table the following document entitled Government of the Northwest Territories Summary of Federal Funding 1994-95 to 2003-04. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Handley. Item 13, tabling of documents. The honourable Minister of Finance, Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a few documents to table. Mr. Speaker, further to Return to Written Question 42-15(3), I wish to table the following documents entitled GNWT Summary of Current Annual Funding Arrangements and GNWT Summary of Multi-Year Funding Arrangements. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Item 13, tabling of documents. Item 14, notices of motion. The honourable Member for Kam Lake, Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on Friday, February 11, 2005, I will move the following motion: Now therefore I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Yellowknife South, that this Legislative Assembly, by virtue of section 3 of the Elections Act, recommends to the Commissioner the appointment of Glen McLean as Chief Electoral Officer for the Northwest Territories; and further, that this appointment shall be in effect until June 30, 2008.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Item 14, notices of motion. The honourable Member for Tu Nedhe, Mr. Villeneuve.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on Friday, February 11, 2005, I will move the following motion: Now therefore I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Range Lake, that the following appointments be rescinded:

1. a) Mr. Robert Hawkins, Member for Yellowknife Centre, to the Standing Committee on Social Programs;
2. b) Mr. Robert Villeneuve, Member for Tu Nedhe, to the Board of Management as an alternate; and,
3. c) Mr. Norman Yakeleya, Member for Sahtu, to the Standing Committee on Governance and Economic Development as an alternate.

And further that the following appointments be effected:

1. a) Mr. Robert Hawkins, Member for Yellowknife Centre, to the Standing Committee on Governance and Economic Development;
2. b) Mr. Robert McLeod, Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes, to the Standing Committee on Accountability and Oversight, to the Standing Committee on Social Programs, and to the Standing Committee on Governance and Economic Development as an alternate; and
3. c) Mr. Norman Yakeleya, Member for Sahtu, to the Board of Management as an alternate.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. Item 14, notices of motion. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to seek unanimous consent to return to tabling of documents. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

The Member is seeking unanimous consent to return to item 13, tabling of documents. Are there any nays? There are no nays. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, colleagues. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to table in this House the positions filled and vacant in the Audit Bureau for the past five years, that demonstrates the seriousness of the issue I brought up earlier today. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Item 13, tabling of documents. Item 15, notices of motion for first reading of bills. The honourable Minister of Finance, Mr. Roland.