Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, on another note, I would like to ask the Minister of Justice, does the Department of Justice have any type of working contract with the Tlicho Community Services Agency to deliver various healing related programs for Tlicho inmates in the Tlicho language? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. Mr. Bell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I will again check on that. I am not sure if the contracted relationship is directly through the TCSA or if it's individually with an elder or if it's through the community services agency and then to various elders, but I will get the detail and get back to the Member. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bell. Final supplementary, Mr. Lafferty.

Mahsi, Mr Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my final note on the Tlicho Community Services Agency, since the response will be forthcoming from the Minister, can the Minister commit to a possible partnership with the agency if there is no such agreement in place to deliver such programs for Tlicho inmates in the Tlicho language? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. Mr. Bell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will commit to sitting down with the Member and his leadership and discussing what the best arrangement going forward would be. I agree that if there is a need and it sounds like there is a need at the North Slave Correctional Centre to provide better programming in the Tlicho language, then I am willing to sit down and discuss that and talk about how we best do that with the leadership. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bell. Oral questions. The honourable Member for Tu Nedhe, Mr. Villeneuve.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, just going through some of the Bathurst caribou monitoring reviews that are going to be happening, I know the Bathurst caribou survey is planned for 2009. Two years from now, Mr. Speaker, when the crisis is right now and I think we just need action now today. We can't wait for two years. I want to ask the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, can the Minister work to get a commitment from the federal government to provide the resources required to conduct a thorough study while the iron is hot? That being right now within the year. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. The honourable Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Member is referring to the Bathurst herd. We just finished our study on the Bathurst herd and the results were just provided this fall, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Supplementary, Mr. Villeneuve.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am not sure if that review has been tabled in this House, but I haven't seen it. I know there is another review that they are looking at in 2009. By the time 2009 rolls around, the Bathurst caribou will probably be put on the species at risk list. Heaven forbid if that happens because all of a sudden it will be in the federal government's management responsibility. If the federal government manages it, then we won't have as much input as we like. I want the Minister to maybe put something on the record that he will commit to move dollars into this initiative, either a supplementary appropriation or a reallocation in his department. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In our caribou management plan, we committed to counting caribou on the basis of at least every three years. In the Member's riding, the Beverly herd is planned to be counted next year. Maybe there is some confusion that the herd in his riding is not being counted, but we are doing it next year, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Final supplementary, Mr. Villeneuve.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I guess with the caribou crisis looming over us here today, and we have no Species at Risk Act yet, and any caribou herd that gets on the Species at Risk Act gets into the federal government's responsibility. I just want to quote what Chief Jimmy Bruneau said in the 1940s about caribou management discussions with federal officials. He said, "We don't tell you what to do with your cows down south. Don't tell us what to do with our caribou up here." I would just like to keep it that way. I just want to ask the Minister if he can provide any immediate injection of any extra dollars into wildlife management, especially caribou initiatives, here in the NWT over the next few months through a supplementary appropriation. Can he make that commitment for the residents of the NWT? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In our action plan for this upcoming year and the following years, we've committed that we will do further surveys. The Beverly herd is scheduled to be next on the list. We've just finished the Bathurst herd, Mr. Speaker, and there are a number of actions that we would like to take. We need to get a better handle on the aboriginal harvesting. We need to work with the co-management groups. We have to do more monitoring. We would like to spend more time patrolling. We would like to spend more time looking at ways we can have no-hunting zones and all those things. So there are a number of things we have in the works, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there is some interest through the International Polar Year actions and initiatives that the caribou herd would also be looked at especially in the areas of identifying all the different calving grounds and making sure we had a good handle on where they are. That will be conducted through all of North American, Mr. Speaker, over the next while once we have these things all approved, Mr. Speaker.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of ITI and it goes back to my Member's Statement regarding aurora tourism and the fact that the Northwest Territories is now faced with some stiff competition from Alaska, Yukon and northern Alberta. My assertion is that the government is not doing enough

to ensure that we are looking at growing the industry here in the Northwest Territories. I would like to ask the Minister, according to the Tourism 2010 plan, which calls for an additional $1.2 million in marketing -- $400,000 from ITI a year and $800,000 from partners -- could he give this House an update on how that marketing money is working? Are we getting the $800,000? Are we making the investment in this industry? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. The honourable Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment, Mr. Bell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are now talking about the second year of our five-year tourism plan. There are significant dollars going towards destination marketing. Of course we use the NWT Tourism, our DMO. I think they do a very effective job and I know that in this business plan -- I don't have that in front of me -- but I know they have identified Aurora Tourism visitation as a priority. They demonstrate the amount of other partners and money that they are able to lever with their investment. I think it's something that has been working quite well. As the Member pointed out in his statement though, we have a number of challenges and there are a number of things to come to grips with of destination market spending. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bell. Supplementary, Mr. Ramsay.