Mr. Speaker, my question is to the Minister Responsible for the Workers’ Compensation Board.

There was a process that was advertised in the paper last summer. It was in the papers for about three months. It advertised to find an appropriate applicant for the chairman position of the Workers’ Compensation Board.

I believe there were several applications that were filed: one from Nunavuk, six from the Northwest Territories, and, I believe, three of them were former deputy ministers of this government.

Yet, Mr. Speaker, it seems to me that due process was not followed. Also, the Minister, in making a decision to extend the appointment of the existing chairman, may have breached the N.W.T. Act, the Workers’ Compensation Act, where it is clearly stated that a member of the board cannot exceed a term of six years. By extending the appointment under the advertisement that was made for a three-year appointment for the chair of this board — by making that appointment — the breach has taken place.

I’d like to ask the Minister: of the seven applicants who filed, were there any interviews done with those applicants by way of coming up with a short-

list, in interviewing those applicants, to see who was the best candidate for that job?