Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Bell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We do have an agreement of social program Ministers. We meet together frequently. These are the kinds of issues we discuss. I have discussed this specific issue with Minister Miltenberger. He's very much aware of it. It is our goal and is our aim, as a government, to be able to

deal with some of these pressing needs. I know about the situation in Wrigley and I am hopeful that through programs like the socio-economic impact fund we can roll out additional funding and respond to some of the needs in our smaller communities. It is a priority for this government, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bell. Oral questions. The honourable Member from the Sahtu, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. The honourable Minister responsible for Environment and Natural Resources, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have, as part of the interim measures, identified the need for public education and awareness as one of the primary and first areas we want to move on and work with the regions and communities on. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Supplementary, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I look forward to that education campaign. Mr. Speaker, I want to again ask the Minister, would he consider using primarily the elders under the traditional policy that the government has to use the traditional knowledge policy to have an impact on this educational campaign? We need to use the elders in terms of this education campaign. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the use of traditional knowledge is one of the types of knowledge that we've used to get to where we are today, and I commit to the Member that we will continue to use the traditional knowledge and the experience and knowledge of the elders, and we will be working with the wildlife boards region by region to look at how we want to best work on this public education campaign, and that will include, as the Member has suggested, using all the skills and the knowledge that elders possess. Thank you.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, again I look forward to the input from our elders and to see how it plays out in the educational campaign program. Mr. Speaker, the Colville Lake people have a story up in Colville Lake about the creation of the world, and they have a story about the creation of caribou, and I want to ask the Minister when they're conducting surveying methods, would they consider strongly the use of the aboriginal method of conducting surveys of our caribou as part of their education campaign? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Miltenberger.

We will strongly consider that, yes, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Oral questions. The honourable Member for Kam Lake, Mr. Ramsay.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation and it goes back to my Member's statement and the fact that government should be about trying to help residents move ahead and be successful. I think the Minister of ECE should also be paying attention to the questions that I'm going to be asking today, because what it would seem like to me is that the Housing Corporation is willing to turn its back on an aboriginal woman who's pursuing an education and is gainfully employed. I'd like to ask the Minister if he's aware, or I know that he is aware that there is a dispute here over what is fair and reasonable in this case. I know the Minister knows about this case. I'd like to ask him, what is the process that the Housing Corporation has for dispute resolution with people wanting closure on something? Are lawyers the only way out, Mr. Speaker? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. The honourable Minister of the Housing Corporation, Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am unable to respond to this question because it is a legal matter that is before the courts. They have retained a lawyer and I will not respond to this question. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. The Minister has refused to answer this question because it's before the courts. Supplementary, Mr. Ramsay.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Minister answered my question for me. It's

before the courts and he can't answer. I'd like to ask the Minister if the Housing Corporation has ever thought about coming up with some type of alternate dispute resolution mechanism so that folks don't have to go the legal route. They don't have to go into court with the Housing Corporation on what is fair and what is reasonable. Disputes can be resolved without having to go to court and I'd like to ask the Minister if the Housing Corporation has embarked on a plan to try to get people out of having to go to court with the Housing Corporation. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in regards to individual clients, we do deal with each individual case by case and it falls under the parameters of what the situation is. We do have policies and procedures that deal with mortgages and how we deal with our clients. But again, Mr. Speaker, there are different types of circumstances, like the Member mentioned, that when students do go off to school we do allow them that, we do not charge them, or we basically hold their unit for them during that period of time when they're going to school. But there are also certain conditions attached to that in which the individuals have to abide by. Again, we deal with a person or application individually and we do have a process in place how we have rules and procedures to deal with those. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Final supplementary, Mr. Ramsay.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, like I mentioned in my Member's statement, I wouldn't want to see my constituent, even though one of my colleagues might be happy that they moved back to the community of Behchoko and take up social housing in the community of Rae and live in a unit with a forgivable loan, I don't want to see that happen. I don't want to see her become another statistic. I'd like to ask the Minister, doesn't the Housing Corporation have anything they could negotiate with clients on compassionate grounds? Don't they have any compassion at the Housing Corporation that would allow them to negotiate with people so they don't have to go to court? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.