Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Final supplementary, Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am a little confused on what we are going to get for a commitment. I have got the commitment that we are working on the problem, and I want to say that I acknowledge that. But, Mr. Speaker, I have heard an endless amount of times from this Minister that we have the highest level of diabetes. We have other problems such as obesity and lack of active living. So, Mr. Speaker, what is this Minister going to do to deal with this problem, from a legislative point of view? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My understanding is that there is, in fact, no provincial or territorial legislation that legislates food choices in schools or anywhere else. Mr. Speaker, this is clearly an issue, as I have indicated, a policy of education of convincing people to make the right choices, of giving them access to the right foods to make the choice of. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in this job I like to think I know a lot about government programs, but you never know everything. This morning I learned on the radio that, to my delight, Aurora College is graduating four radiology technicians with the help of a program at McMaster University.

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These four graduates come from Deline, Fort McPherson, and I think another small community.

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I have been thinking, though; I wasn't aware of this program. I want to make sure that we have jobs lined up for these four graduates who are excited to be graduating. I would like to ask the Minister more information about this program and what he has planned to have these good people employed in the North. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. I am not sure what Minister you are directing your questions to -- Health and Social Services or Education, Culture and Employment -- so I will get you to clarify that for me. Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions were directed to the Minister of Health and Social Services.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. The honourable Minister of Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it is our intention to try to offer employment first of all to all the graduates we can in all the areas of need. That clearly is probably one of them. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Time for oral questions has expired; however, I will allow you your supplementary, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am aware, from talking to people who work at the hospital, that there is always need for more imaging technicians and people who are trained in diagnostic imaging, but I am not aware that there are these facilities available in Deline or Fort McPherson, so I am assuming that these people would have to be employed in Yellowknife. Does the Minister know anything differently? Maybe they have it. I stand to be corrected. Would they then be hired in these communities? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there are facilities, of course, in Yellowknife, Inuvik, Hay River, Fort Smith, and Fort Simpson. The Member is right; this is one of the areas of the allied health professions where there is a shortage, and having northern trained graduates is going to be a real boon to all of us. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Time for oral questions has expired. Item 7, written questions. The honourable Member for Yellowknife Centre, Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my written question is for the Chair of the Financial Management Board.

Would the chair of the Financial Management Board please provide the House the dollar figures of any federal funding or other forms of funding that had been returned to the federal government or other contributors over the past five years? The existence of any returned funds is what is under the criteria of the request.

Specific to return money only:

1. Why did the GNWT originally receive this funding, what was the original amount and specific intent of the proposal?
2. Why were the funds not used by the GNWT and then returned?
3. When were these funds received and then returned?
4. Were outside agencies ever considered or engaged specifically to fulfill any proposal that we received funding for? If this is so, please provide details to specific cases that apply to the reasons these projects were not fulfilled.
5. In individual cases of returned funds, that did not engage outside agencies, why were they not considered in order to fulfill the intent of the proposal?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Item 7, written questions. Item 8, returns to written questions. Item 9, replies to opening address. Item 10, petitions. Item 11, reports of standing and special committees. Item 12, reports of committees and the review of bills. Item 13, tabling of documents. Item 14, notices of motion. Item 15, notices of motion for first reading of bills. Item 16, motions. Item 17, first reading of bills. Item 18, second reading of bills. Item 19, consideration in Committee of the Whole of bills and other matters: Bill 17, Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Act; Bill 19, Appropriation Act, 2005-2006; Bill 20, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 3, 2004-2005; Committee Report 9-15(3), Standing Committee on Accountability and Oversight Report on the Review of the Draft 2005-2006 Main Estimates; Committee Report 10-15(3), Standing Committee on Governance and Economic Development Report on the Review of the Draft 2005-2006 Main Estimates; Committee Report 11-15(3), Standing Committee on Social Programs Report on the Review of the Draft 2005-2006 Main Estimates; Committee Report 12-15(3), Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the Administration of the 2003 General Election; Minister's Statement 86-15(3), Northern Strategy; Minister's Statement 88-15(3), Update on Oil and Gas Development in the NWT; Minister's Statement 89-15(3), Community Leaders' Conference Report: Preparing for the Pipeline; Minister's Statement 90-15(3), Social Impacts of the Mackenzie Gas Project; Minister's Statement 91-15(3), Preparing for the Mackenzie Gas Project; and, Tabled Document 108-15(3), Nation Building: Framework for a Northern Strategy. By the power of authority given to me as Speaker, by Motion 2-15(3), I hereby resolve the House into Committee of the Whole to sit beyond the hour of adjournment until such time as the committee is ready to report progress, with Mrs. Groenewegen in the chair.

I call Committee of the Whole to order. What is the wish of the committee? Mr. Menicoche.

Madam Chair, the committee wishes to consider Appropriation Act, 2005-2006, specifically with continuation of Municipal and Community Affairs.

Thank you. Does the committee agree?

Okay. We will continue with Municipal and Community Affairs after a break.

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I call Committee of the Whole back to order. We are on the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs. I have asked the committee if they would agree that the Minister be invited to bring witnesses into the Chamber. Agreed?