Thank you, Mr. Chair. Before I spoke to the sub-office that was going to be in Inuvik with the two positions, as many Members know, I have spoken to this issue a number of times. I have spoken to my disagreement with Inuvik not having the bulk of the

pipeline positions. I have a few questions I would like to ask the Minister. Calling it a sub-office, I would like to know where it is a sub-office of.

In the travel budget for last year and the revised estimate with $590,000 and the main estimates was $490,000, that is a $100,000 increase. Like I said before, I am hoping the department has a large travel budget because they are going to be spending a lot of time in Inuvik. I noticed this year we have a budget of $487,000. I would be interested to know what the revised estimates will come in at next year. That would be another one of my questions.

I see a lot of positions and a lot of money going into Yellowknife and Hay River. With Inuvik being the centre of this whole oil and gas industry, the anchor fields and everything, it just seems that they got the wrong end of the stick. I see we approved a supp last year for $610,000, $500,000 for expertise to participate in National Energy Board hearings. I would think that we would have some of this expertise in house. I see another $60,000 for Mackenzie Valley pipeline office communication costs; $60,000. I am assuming that is to make phone calls and faxes and that back and forth with Inuvik. I really have a strong disagreement with how the government decides where they are going to put the offices. We should put a diamond office in Tsiigehtchic. It may not make sense to have a sub-office in Yellowknife, but a lot of the decisions that I have been seeing don't make very much sense to me. There were a couple of questions there.

Again, I have to go on the record and say how unhappy I am. I know a lot of the leadership in the Beaufort-Delta is also quite unhappy that, being in the heart of the oil and gas industry in the Beaufort-Delta, we have, right now, one position and we are going to get two, but we are just going to be a sub-office. I would like the Minister to explain some of the rationale behind all of this and hopefully assure me that somewhere in the future we can get more positions. There are quite a few positions here in Yellowknife. I think we should be able to transfer some of these positions and not just keep creating, creating and creating. We create too many positions. I see we lost seven positions because of the human resource amalgamation, but it didn't change the overall active positions at all. I think it even shows an increase of seven, if I am not mistaken. There are a few questions there and some comments for Minister Bell. Thank you, Mr. Chair.