Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to discuss an issue that I’ve brought up in the House before. It’s a priority of the Assembly to do decentralization, to put jobs out in the regions from a priority of this Assembly when we started. Now I’m going to be questioning Cabinet and the Premier today about how and the timing of this.

Mr. Speaker, you well know that this session is very short before we go into the summer break, but then when we come back in September we’ll be looking at business plans of departments of how these departments are going to be run and operate over the next year. In that planning session I would hope to see some of the discussion on how we’re decentralizing some of the activities that these departments are doing.

The question that I have today, and I’ve asked in this House before, is there must be a big plan. I’ve heard, and it has been indicated by some of the Ministers, that there is a plan, we kind of have an idea, you may get this, you may get some other

positions, but we’ve never ever seen a plan here on this side of this is how it’s going to be laid out.

We’ve talked about devolution and the positions there, and we were held up by the federal government on some of the work that can be done. We have plans out there from the department side of we’re going to build these types of houses in this type of locations. The thing is, have we incorporated those construction plans along with a plan to decentralize the government?

I will have questions later for the Premier of the Northwest Territories on decentralization and when is the big plan coming out to the general public and to this side of the House. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.