Mr. Speaker, we'd have to get more information on it as to that specific project and the problems around it. Mr. Speaker, there are a number of new initiatives that we're looking at that we will be introducing in this House, and will have some new budget lines. I'm hoping that this will be able to address the problems the Member is referring to.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm just wondering, can the Minister ensure that, provided it can get funds to relocate that facility, can you do that? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. McLeod.

Mr. Speaker, I'm not in a position to make that commitment at this point. We don't have all the detail from the federal government and we still have yet to table our energy plan and our greenhouse gas plan/strategy in this House. I'll commit to the Member that we'll take a look at it as soon as we have more detail. I'm going to require more information from the Member, also. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Premier and it gets to the statement I made earlier on the Mackenzie Gas Project Socio-Economic Agreement. I wanted to ask the Premier why his government would see to it to write a letter of comfort to the proponents suggesting to them a tax environment that would be stable on the one hand, and then on the other hand when we have an opportunity to get the proponents to come to our defence in a 20-year battle that this government has had with Ottawa in trying to get resource revenue sharing, it's not there. I'd like to ask the Premier why this omission was allowed to take place. Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. The honourable Premier, Mr. Handley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The negotiations -- and we're in the middle of tough negotiations right now with the federal government on resource revenue sharing and devolution -- are negotiations between us and the federal government and aboriginal government. Those are not negotiations with the pipeline proponents. Mr. Speaker, they could give us a statement of support, I suppose, but I don't think they want to do that politically. I don't think they'd want to get into that. They're in the business of developing oil and gas pipelines and will stay with that. They will leave the politics to us and they've made that very clear to us, that they have no role in discussions we have with the federal government and don't intend to get into it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Handley. Supplementary, Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I just think we, as a government, are missing an opportunity, a great opportunity to get the proponents to come to the table, come to our defence and say this project is being built in the Mackenzie Valley in the Northwest Territories and we need to support the Government of the Northwest Territories in their fight to get resource revenue sharing, Mr. Speaker.

I'd like to ask the Premier another question and that gets back to supporting the establishment of a permanent trust fund, or a heritage fund, to ensure a lasting legacy from this project to residents in the Northwest Territories. Why was this omitted? There's no discussion or talk of a trust fund of any nature in the socio-economic agreement and I'd like to know why. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. The honourable Premier, Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, as I said, the negotiations on resource revenue sharing and royalties and taxes and so on are negotiations between us and the federal government. To try to add those into an agreement with the proponents would be asking them to agree to something that they have no control over, no involvement in, and would be something that, if I was in their shoes, I wouldn't agree to either. They have no role in it. It's between us and the federal government. Mr. Speaker, those negotiations are ongoing.

The idea of a trust fund is something we have to take up with the federal government in terms of our resource revenue sharing and what we do with that money eventually. This is not an issue for the proponents. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, that's where I tend to disagree with the Premier. As I mentioned, the pipeline is being built in the Northwest Territories and I think the proponents would be wise to side with the Government of the Northwest Territories in our fight.

The last question I have for the Premier, I'd like to ask him, in terms of monitoring the project, $75,000 a year after construction, it doesn't seem to me that that would be adequate and I'd like to have the Premier comment on that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Handley.

Mr. Speaker, again, I'm not sure exactly how much it's going to take to monitor. Once the pipeline is built, it's a pipe in the ground, it comes out of the ground every now and again, there are a few compressor stations, and there isn't a huge, active utility there that needs a lot of scrutiny in terms of its ongoing monitoring. I don't think it's going to be a huge project. I suspect that the $75,000 is probably pretty accurate in terms of what is needed for that kind of project. It's much simpler than monitoring a mine, for example, an open pit mine where they're expanding and opening new pits and doing different things with water and so on. This is a pretty benign project, once it's built. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Handley. Oral questions. The honourable Member for Range Lake, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister of MACA before he jets off to Whitehorse. Mr. Speaker, yesterday I had the occasion to get a briefing on the sports and recreation community and how they are funded, and I learned a lot of new things that I haven't been briefed on lately. I understand that the total budget is over $4 million, that they get most of the money from lotteries, and, secondly, they get money from the territorial government but a very small portion from the federal government. In light of the importance of this issue, that was a new thing for me. Coincidentally last night on the news, the federal government is talking about reviving the ParticipACTION and there's a great concern about our young people not being as healthy as they ought to be. So I'd like to ask the Minister what work he's involved in, in trying to get some federal funding to fund our very expensive sports programs that are very good for the communities, and we need to do more of that. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. Honourable Minister responsible for Municipal and Community Affairs, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have been working for a number of years now on a number of issues that are common to all the residents of Canada. There has been a lot of focus in the last while regarding the infrastructure requirements, and that includes recreation facilities and sports facilities. That's something we've raised at the federal/provincial/territorial level. We've also raised the issue of participation and getting people more active. As sports Ministers from across Canada, we've worked with the federal government, we've set a target of increasing ParticipACTION by 10 percent. So those things are coming forward and I'm expecting that some of these announcements will be as a result of some of that work that took place. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Supplementary, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The facility is one thing, and programming. It is so expensive for us to fund a lot of games that we do for our children, and we do a lot of it focusing on participation rather than elite sporting; and that, too. There was a statement about teachers, and teachers are the number one fundraisers and all the community people who need to raise money for not only programs, but for facilities. Could I ask the Minister for more detail on what he's expecting, or has he heard anything about what is our dollar amount? From what I learned, the federal government funds about $200,000 out of a $4 million budget. Could he give us any number as to any tables that he's working on with his federal counterparts that we could foresee? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. McLeod.