Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Supplementary, Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you very much. The other part of this concern is that I would like to talk to somebody who cares.

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Will the Minister help me address this concern with the applicable airlines that are flying in my region? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We would gladly arrange a meeting with the airline that the Member is referring to. Providing we get that information, we could arrange that and have the Member have that discussion. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. The honourable Premier, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, I'm told that the Minister of Justice has asked the Minister responsible for the Audit Bureau to have the Audit Bureau take a look at the methodology to make sure that the way they've arrived at their number is a fair way of doing it and I understand that that is being done. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. The honourable Premier, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, I think the first step has to be to have our Audit Bureau have a look at it. The Audit Bureau maintains a professional standard in terms of what they do and is certainly not part of any government department that they would be taking a look at. So I think we have to trust that our Audit Bureau is going to be fair. They're professional people, they're going to come up with an assessment that says whether or not the methodology that Justice used is accurate. I think that can be done fairly quickly and when that's done, then we can determine how we move ahead with this. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. The honourable Premier, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, the Audit Bureau is a unit that is made up of people who are professional auditors. They are going to look at the methodology. They're not going to go out and do a review and look for input from everywhere, Mr. Speaker. They are looking at the methodology that was used by Justice in arriving at this. So this is not a review of all the information that people might have out in the public or by others to add to this. It's a look at the methodology that Justice is using. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. A couple of questions there, but, Mr. Premier, I'll let you answer them. Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, this issue came up following question period on Friday. After question period, the Minister of Justice talked with the Minister of Finance, who is responsible for the Audit Bureau, and made this arrangement. So that's why he wasn't able to answer. So it was a follow-up to the questions that were asked that day. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Handley. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Tu Nedhe, Mr. Villeneuve.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs with respect to the new deal. Mr. Speaker, in the new deal there's a big emphasis on a lot of the benefits or the taxation revenue for the smaller communities. My question to the Minister is in respect to the communities that have been improperly assessed by the assessment department versus communities that have been properly assessed with their physical inspections being done according to the PATA act. How is this fair and balanced funding arrangement between the GNWT and the communities amongst themselves going to be reached when we have that imbalance in the base of the funding mechanism to begin with? How is he going to balance that out? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. The honourable Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The new deal for community governments plan put together by our department, Municipal and Community Affairs, has a component that we'll return some of the funding, or the amount collected through property taxes in each community, to the community for the communities to use towards capital projects or other projects in the community. If the community is not collecting or is not able to collect those taxes, then only the amount that is collected for that year will be transferred over in the form of a grant. If there is a problem in recovering or collecting the taxes, we, as a department, have committed that we will continue to work with the communities to ensure that a solution is worked out. There are some communities that have had problems for some time, and the community that the Member represents, Fort Resolution, is one of them. We've offered to go in to do a new assessment, because, at our meetings with the community, there were a lot of issues that came forward, including that they didn't understand the whole property taxation assessment. There was also a concern that it was not being assessed properly. There was also the concern that the aboriginal government should not be in a position to have its members taxed through property taxation.

So there are a number of issues there that we are continually having to look at. We wanted to go in this year to do an assessment. The chief has indicated to us that he's not willing to allow us to come into the community to do an assessment. We also, at a public community meeting, offered to work with the Deninu K'ue First Nations to look at options, and up to now we have not had any feedback on that. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.