Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just as a side note then, I just want to make a comment here and I hope the UNW is listening. I hope that they're taking note of how this department treats casuals and term employees, because I think certainly they could not operate their facilities without casual employees and I think it's a rather abysmal oversight for the Minister to not even be aware whether or not they have been consulted about changes that are coming in such a short time, in three weeks from now, and can't speak to that definitively.

Mr. Chairman, can I just move on to the issue of the assertion by the Department of Justice that they don't think that demand for services is going to be impacted by resource development. I had posed that question to the department and had got that response back. We are talking about infrastructure on the ground, in the community, with the attendant employees in order to deliver those services. I recognize that nobody can foresee the future, but, Mr. Chairman, I think that pretty well everybody in the Northwest Territories knows that barring unforeseen obstacles, there is going to be a surge in activity and population, particularly affecting communities like Hay River. Associated with that activity, most often the traditional, conventional thinking is that that kind of surge in activity and population would impact social services, including justice services. So I would like to ask the Minister what kind of consultation his department did in looking forward and being farsighted on these reductions as to what was going to be happening in Hay River with respect to the Mackenzie oil and gas pipeline. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.