Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a number of items that I wanted to cover and I will start with just wanting to make a few comments on the new money that is there for initiatives to prepare for the Mackenzie gas project. I have said it many times before, I think we are, as a government, more reactive to things that happen, rather than proactive. Here we are again requesting some jobs, some positions when this type of work and the pipeline office is still not staffed up to the level that it is supposed to be staffed up to.

This is work that should have been done years ago. We should have been planning for this years ago. To me, it looks like poor, poor planning. Now we are coming back hiring four new positions in MACA, another position in Health and Social Services. I'm still not convinced, and haven't been convinced from day one, that this government has a coordinated approach to dealing with pipeline related issues.

The pipeline office was supposed to help, but we are still going off in separate directions, as I see it, department by department. I know that there are working groups with deputy ministers and whatnot, but I still do not see the coordination that I think has to be there.

Mr. Chairman, the first question I have for the Minister is I am wondering about the $440,000 for three community benefits agreements specialists and a community benefits coordinator. Are those jobs based on a one-year term, or are these indeterminate positions with the GNWT? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.