Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I guess, for the record, let's make it clear that there are no problems to date. Potential problems, I guess the Member is referring to. The Member is correct; we are going through work on the Financial Administration Act and that is an opportunity, as we sit down with Members, that we could look at including something of this nature. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Final Supplementary, Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. If I can take the Minister up on his small, but -- I heard it -- olive branch on that as something they can look at, what will we be looking at and how soon will we get some information back from the Minister on the direction that I've been trying to draw out? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the work on the Financial Administration Act is a very large piece of work and I'm unable to give a timeline commitment on this particular piece. As we bring it forward to committee, members we'll have to incorporate this. I'm not looking at pulling a piece of this out and doing it that way. We're doing a full review of the Financial Administration Act, it has been ongoing for some time, and hopefully in the near future we'll be able to bring something forward to Members of this Assembly. Thank you.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I want to ask questions today to the Minister of ECE. It gets back to the facilities usage here in Yellowknife and the school issue. I think some people may be thinking this is a relatively new issue. This isn't a new issue. It's been at the top of our agenda since at least three years ago when we were elected and recent events with the fire at Ecole St. Joseph last summer. It's surfaced again now because there is a desperate need to accommodate students from St. Joseph School. I'd like to ask the Minister of ECE what, maybe he can give us a little bit of a chronology of how and what he has done to address this issue over the past three years. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. The honourable Minister responsible for Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the Member is aware, the issue about school space was first raised by school boards when we met with them right after the last election. So it has been something that all the Yellowknife Members have been involved in for almost four years now.

The issues of or the manner in which it's been handled was, first of all, after the first couple of meetings there didn't seem to be any easy way to move forward, so I put together a committee that involved all of the stakeholders in education in Yellowknife. That committee met and over the course of a number of months; delivered a final report about a year ago.

Subsequent to that, since it didn't come to some resolution on space for schools in Yellowknife, I brought in

a mediator and asked him to meet with the two boards. That didn't come to any fruitful resolution.

Following that, I met myself with the two boards to try and move the process along. So there's been ongoing consultation to try and bring this to some resolution over the past three years. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Supplementary, Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I was wondering if the Minister can give the government's assessment of what might be able to happen to try to get both school boards together to come up with a workable solution to the situation. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. At this point, I have, by way of letter to YK 1, indicated what I think should happen in this circumstance. As discussed between Ms. Lee and myself yesterday, perhaps the next step, if we're unable to reach resolution there, would be to ensure that there is a better understanding among the public of what the recommendations are and what they mean. So we may have to look at some mechanism for a public meeting to allow stakeholders in Yellowknife to get all of the information.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Supplementary, Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think that the more information that gets out there into the public domain would be a step in the right direction for the Minister and the department to undertake that work, and I'd say move forward on that. I'd like to ask the Minister what would plan B be if the two school boards absolutely cannot work together and cannot find a solution amongst themselves? What is plan B, or is there is a plan B to this situation? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd say right now that plan B is to make sure the parents have all of the information and then I'm hoping that they would be prepared to put some pressure on the boards to ensure that they are acting in the most appropriate way. That, to me, is plan B. For us to go beyond dealing with the boards and actually deal with the public is a step beyond what would be in the normal course of business. So at this point, that's plan B, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Oral questions. The honourable Member for Thebacha, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are addressed to the Minister of Municipal and Communities and it's a follow-up to the statement I made in the House about some of the concerns that have been raised to me and to my colleague from Inuvik. As opposed to talking about the specifics of the concerns, the question is more in terms of process to the Minister. There's been a new structure put in place and there has been a lot of work done, but clearly there seems to be some issues out there that need to be resolved. I'd just like to ask the Minister how he would anticipate being able to get the players together to keep working through these issues so that we don't lose any volunteers that are in such short supply already in the communities? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. The honourable Minister responsible for Municipal and Community Affairs, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the whole concept of amalgamation and putting all the sports organizations under one roof, one umbrella structure, has been something that's been proven to be working quite well. We're quite satisfied that we're making some really good progress with the lotteries; we're making good progress in terms of amalgamating a lot of the administration; we've also made some great headway in terms of housing all the organizations in their own building under one roof. There have been a few concerns that have come forward, especially in light of some of the territorial sports organizations that have been penalized. That is an issue that we are talking to the Sport North organization about, how they can deal with these things. There have been appeals but, Mr. Speaker, for the most part, we're quite satisfied that things are going ahead pretty good and we hope that they will continue to do so. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Supplementary, Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I agree, as well, that there's been a lot of positive changes, but clearly we're hearing from some of the TSOs that the structures that are there -- and we focus a lot on the structure -- still comes down to the volunteers in the communities delivering the programs. The question to the Minister is what specific steps will be done to try to address or bring the TSOs to have a discussion with the rest of the organization to try to sort out some of these differences before we have an exodus of critical volunteers? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. McLeod.