Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Certainly everybody is impacted one way or another by any kind of major development that happens in the Territories. For those people, and I'll say again, for those people on whose traditional land the activity is taking place, there is that opportunity to sign impact benefit agreements or access and benefit agreements, whatever we call them, or to enter into these other special arrangements like the socio-economic impact fund. For everybody in the Territories, aboriginal, non-aboriginal, the big opportunity is for us to achieve success in negotiating resource revenue sharing. That's the money that will come to all the people in the Territories, including Yellowknife. Mr. Speaker, that is the real source of benefit for all of us; otherwise why have these projects? So it will come through resource revenue sharing and I look forward to full support from everybody for us to succeed in resource revenue sharing negotiations. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The fact of the matter is we've been fighting for resource revenue sharing in this territory for 20 years and I don't know how the Premier's response to me is going to make me feel any better. I know the budget is coming down, as one of my colleagues has mentioned, on March 19th. Hopefully, there's some good news; but we've been just hoping and praying for far too many years. Again, I want to ask the Premier how is the City of Yellowknife, for example, or the Town of Hay River, going to be able to access any funding to deal with social impacts from the Mackenzie gas project? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Handley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I could tell you right now that Hay River and Yellowknife are not beneficiaries of an impact benefit agreement or an access and benefit agreement, but all the people in the Territories, including Hay River and Yellowknife, benefit from the billion dollars or so that we have negotiated with the federal government for delivery of program services. We all benefit from that. Mr. Speaker, I'm pleased with the support that the federal government gave us in adjustments in the 2006-07 budget, and I look forward to the adjustments that will come in the 2007-08 and future budgets. Mr. Speaker, I could tell you, though, that we should not hold out hope or expectation that there will be a resource revenue sharing deal in the 2007-08 budget. When I met with the Prime Minister last week, he told me that it was premature, that he wasn't going to be able to deal with that part, but he would deal with fiscal imbalance and that became a bit of a debate between him and I on how that was going to work, but we cannot expect, I don't think, to see a resource sharing deal in that budget.

Mr. Speaker, we all have to work together -- aboriginal, non-aboriginal, large communities, small communities -- if we want to be successful in this. It's been going on for 20 years and I'm going to keep pushing until the last day I have in this office to try and make that deal succeed. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Earlier today I spoke about the good work that the Yellowknife Community Wellness Coalition is doing under the COPS program and CSP program. However, one thing I haven't mentioned is some of the difficulties they are having and my questions are to the Minister of Justice. One of the things that they need is a van. The van has a pretty sad story that I probably should have turned into a Member's statement. They were able to get a 1984 used van from the City of Yellowknife to carry these people around and the new program, that CSP program, that Alaska model-based program, would allow these people to help those people who are intoxicated or under the influence and keep them somewhere safe and that would relieve the work of the RCMP, who we know are under-resourced and overworked. Really, what they need is a van and this old van, they put lots of money into it to get it going but it keeps breaking down. They're using the Sir John automotive shop to fix it and the teacher there went on time off so they couldn't even get that, so they got some private sector subsidizing the money to fix it from Canadian Tire. So I'd like to ask, Mr. Speaker, if the Minister could be so kind as to look into this issue and see if the government could help out, because in the long run it's going to save them money for freeing up the RCMP time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. The honourable Minister responsible for Justice, Mr. Bell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. First I want to applaud the work of this organization and the programs that they've championed, like COPS. I think they're providing a valuable service to our community. We know that the policing and public safety is a community responsibility. The RCMP, obviously, are the key component of that that underpins our community response, but these volunteers are doing a wonderful job. I believe the Anchorage model is something that could be very successful here. The more time we can free up, as the Member points out, the RCMP from having to deal with some of these other social issues related to substance abuse and public intoxication, I think, the

better. So, Mr. Speaker, I'd certainly be prepared to sit down with the organization. I do know that we've funded them in the past; I know that they received funding and help through the RCMP. I'd want to look at exactly what they're proposal is and see what the deficit is that they're talking about, but it's certainly something that we would consider doing. Thank you.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I know in the past the GNWT department has funded minimal, a very minimal amount, maybe $4,000 or $5,000. The thing is what we have here is a lot of volunteers doing patrolling; we have volunteers organizing this group, really running it very professionally. They had to work for a year to find liability insurance that's suitable and affordable to them. We have a volunteer executive director who was on contract, was willing to give up his salary to make this happen. So could I ask the Minister for a more firm commitment; not just meeting with the group but would the Minister really look into working within, I don't know, maybe DPW has a disposal van that we could give to them? So would the Minister make a commitment here to look for ways to facilitate them with a van? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. Bell.

Mr. Speaker, I am saying that I will look at their case and look at ways that we can help them. I know we have community justice monies available in all regions, all communities of the North. Sometimes those go untapped for various reasons. Sometimes there are program submissions, sometimes there are not. I will look at the funding we have available and I'll make sure that the department sits down with this organization to understand what kind of a gap or deficit they're facing. I'm not sure we can give an organization an asset from government, but if we can it might be a creative way to solve the problem. I'll certainly look at it, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Bell. Final supplementary, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Then could I ask the Minister to commit to having his staff meet with the Community Services Patrol program, which is that one segment of the... because they run two programs. Could I get the Minister to commit their staff to meet with these people and see if we could resolve it within the next two months, or say next month? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. Bell.

Yes, Mr. Speaker, I can make that commitment. Obviously my staff is listening to the discussion in the House. I would also like to say I appreciate the work that this organization in reaching out to other communities. We know there are challenges in communities like Inuvik, for instance. They've been up to Inuvik to talk about working with that community to bring a similar organization, so that's the kind of response that we need to see across the Territories. I applaud this organization for their efforts and, yes, my officials will undertake to meet as soon as possible to discuss some potential areas we might be able to assist. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bell. Oral questions. The honourable Member for Monfwi, Mr. Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. The honourable Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The process that has been undertaken for development of a curricular tool for language isn't one that specifically deals with each language. What we are looking for is what is the process that each language can fit into a curriculum tool. So it's much like Dene Kede. Dene Kede is a basic curricular tool that doesn't focus on any one language. It allows people to use their language to develop the tool so that it is applicable to that particular region and that particular language. So, Mr. Speaker, the criticisms to date have been focussed on an expectation that the curriculum is going to come out and tell people how to instruct in each language, and that's not the case. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Supplementary, Mr. Lafferty.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Despite the important work of a program like Dene Kede as the Minister stated, for the Dene communities and similar programs for Inuit communities, there has been little or no work over the years on the development of a curriculum document for aboriginal languages in the Northwest Territories. Mr. Speaker, will the Minister commit to revisiting the curriculum development process for aboriginal languages in the Northwest Territories to address the concerns of the education authorities and other language communities in the Northwest Territories? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. Mr. Dent.