Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Supplementary, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I must say, I'm getting so many positive commitments from Ministers it's going to be my full-time job to just make sure that they follow them through with actions.

Mr. Speaker, my supplementary is that the Salvation Army is providing human resources for the Crack Busters program. One of the employees there is the leader in this program, helping with the people and that's taking him away from doing his normal job. One of the ways that the government could help is to provide funding for one or two beds at the Salvation Army. I believe the proposal was made. Would the Minister tell the House whether or not he's able to do anything about that? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have arrangements with the Salvation Army in a number of program areas and we continue to work closely with them on a host of issues, including this and the homeless. They provide a very valuable service and we're going to continue to work with them to look at how we can better support them as we work together to identify the best way to proceed. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Short supplementary, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the niceties that the Minister just stated, but could the Minister indicate...I could tell the Minister that the Salvation Army and the groups involved with the Crack Busters program have applied to the government and the Yellowknife Health and Social Services Authority through them funding a couple of beds throughout the year for the Salvation Army. Would the Minister look into that and see if the department could approve that? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'll check into that specific issue that the Member has referred to. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Final short supplementary, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, when he does look into it, could he do everything he can to see if he could approve funding for two beds throughout the year so that would assist the Salvation Army with providing human resources for the Crack Busters program? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, when it comes to these kinds of requests, I always do everything I can. I'd also like to wish the Member a happy birthday. Thank you.

---Laughter

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Item 7, oral questions. The honourable Member for Nahendeh, Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I, too, would like to wish Ms. Lee a happy birthday.

---Laughter

My questions today are for the Minister of Health and Social Services. Today we heard from my honourable colleagues on many social issues. Of course, justice is one. Currently we have a Joint Cabinet/AOC Pipeline Committee to hear and address the economic concerns that are throughout the North, but more specifically with the planned pipeline. I'd just like to ask the Minister when are we going to address our social envelope issues and when will we seek public input into many of the concerns raised here today? Mahsi cho.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, if the Member is specifically referring to the social impacts of the proposed pipeline, then, yes, as the Minister of Health and Social Services and as a member of the social envelope committee of Ministers, we are currently engaged and have been meeting for some time now on the social impacts. We have been meeting with Minister Bell, who is the lead Minister on the pipeline file, and we are working on coming together with a plan. We met two days ago, in the morning, and we intend to meet again next week to look at the draft outline of a sequence of events and processes that we think would help us address this issue. It would complement and fit into the broader file that's being overseen by Minister Bell.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Supplementary, Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Yes, indeed, I was specifically referring to the projected impacts of a Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline and that's what the people are saying. I think it's time for us to take it out of the planning stages and get it into the communities, Mr. Speaker. What's going to happen is that we have small community problems that need small community solutions. So I would like to suggest to the Minister that we move these meetings along and get input from the communities as soon as we can. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as my colleague from MACA indicated, they had a very successful workshop dealing with this issue. We want to look at the same kind of approach in the regions with the communities, but with a broader social envelope approach. We also recognize

that there's a need to help the communities deal with the multitude and reams of information, the highly technical information that they are getting, trying to sort out what exactly is being said and how they can respond. Part of the work that we're trying to do is come up with a way to assist with that, as well. We want to start moving relatively quickly, but I take the Member's concern that, very clearly, this has to be a process that works at the community level on up, and our job is to set a frame to do that, try to identify some resources and then start rolling it out in conjunction, of course, with our colleagues in this House. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Supplementary, Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I would just like to say I have a dream, I have a vision that I think what we should do is we should be in the smaller communities getting input and then go to the regional level and eventually end up at this large territorial conference where we can really address and have a good look at all the concerns. I would just like to ask the Minister if he would look at something like that when he deals with his colleagues and plans the rollout of this conference? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as a government, we are always very interested in creative, innovative ideas and, of course, that is one and we will look at it. Thank you.