Thank you, Minister Roland. Mr. Yakeleya.

I appreciate the Minister's answer here. Sometimes death has no appointment. When it comes, it comes. So it's tough. I guess the key word is compassionate, but also the wheels have to keep on turning and things have to keep on going. Because we are a small region and our communities are smaller, we are more heavily impacted by what's happening in our small communities, especially how government is looked upon: a big meanie or bully. I am sorry to say, but that's sometimes how government is looked upon. It may be bigger in larger centres like Yellowknife where there are lots of people, but when you have a small community, a small region, it's just the way...I don't live in Yellowknife, Mr. Chairman, and I can't really say what it's like in Yellowknife. I speak for my region and what I hear. I want to just leave it at that. I want to let the Minister know some of the concerns I have. He's answered quite appropriately for me. Thank you.

Mahsi, Mr. Yakeleya. We are on page 2-115, information item, employee relations, operations expenditure summary.

Page 2-116 and 2-117, information item, employee relations, active positions.

Thank you, committee. I will now ask that you please turn back to page 2-85 of your main estimates binder, program summary, operations expenditure summary, $29.237 million.

Thank you. Now I would like to ask that Members turn to page 2-11 of the binder, infrastructure acquisition plan, this is page 2-11, employee relations, tangible capital assets, total tangible capital assets, $500,000. Total activity, $500,000. Total department, $500,000.

Committee, do you now agree that the Department of Human Resources' main estimates have been concluded?

Thank you, committee. I would like to thank you, Minister Roland, Ms. Elkin and Mr. Bird for being with us this afternoon. Have a great weekend.

What is the wish of committee? Mr. Villeneuve.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The committee wishes...I move that we report progress.

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. There is a motion to report progress. The motion is not debatable. To the motion.

Question has been called. All those in favour of the motion? All those opposed? The motion is carried.

---Carried

I will now rise and report progress. Thank you.

Can I have the report of Committee of the Whole? Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Is there a seconder for the motion? The honourable Minister for Sahtu, Mr. Yakeleya. There is a motion on the floor. The motion is in order. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried.

---Carried

The honourable Member for Nahendeh, Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to return to item 12 on the order paper. Mahsi.

The Member is seeking unanimous consent to return to item 12, reports of committees on the review of bills. Are there any nays? There are no nays. We will return to item 12, reports of committees on the review of bills. The honourable member for Nahendeh, Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you very much, honourable colleagues. Mr. Speaker, I wish to report to the Assembly that the Standing Committee on Accountability and Oversight has reviewed Bill 20, An Act to Amend the Income Tax Act, No. 2, and wishes to report that Bill 20 is now ready for Committee of the Whole.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Reports of committees on the review of bills. Third reading of bills. Colleagues, before we go on to the next item on the Order Paper, I would like to have Members join me in recognizing and thanking our Pages that have been with us all week that have been doing some work for us in the Leg.

Earlier this week, we had Pages from Mildred Hall and two from Diamond Jenness School in Hay River who, unfortunately, had to return home due to illness. Today, the Pages are from William MacDonald and, of course, Laurie- Anne Fabien from Katlodeeche First Nation on the Hay River Reserve. Thank you, Pages, for a job well done this week.

---Applause

Mr. Clerk, orders of the day.