Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express a real concern that I have about the current Executive Council's version of consensus government. I find it unbecoming that people who are in a leadership role should be asking ordinary Members to propose changes to government which are really only, at this point in time, clearly in the government's interest. If you are an ordinary Member, you have your own agenda of the things you want to do, and if it is the wish of the government to get rid of the Housing Corporation's board, they should go ahead and do it. If they are convinced that is the thing to do and they can save money, and so on, that is the thing that you can do and you have the authority to do it because you are the government. If you want to get rid of the Denendeh Conservation Board because you think it is no good and it has no purpose, you should have the courage of your convictions to go ahead and do it and not ask ordinary Members to take the heat for things that you want to do yourself.

I can go on at great lengths on all the things that the government would like to do. It is a strange version of consensus government if the involvement that we are going to have is simply to be an instrument of somebody else's policy. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Since we have a very open government and this would normally be a very, very confidential type of arrangement, I would like to ask the Government Leader if she is prepared to tell us what other letters she has received from Members of the Executive Council to indicate their loyalty and support to her.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Government Leader. If you recall, Mr. Speaker, when Mr. Pollard joined the Executive Council, one of the things that he had agreed to do is to give the Leader an undated, but signed, letter of resignation in order to strengthen her hand in this very interesting but fragile form of government. There are other Members who, apparently, were considering doing likewise in order to show loyalty and support to our Leader so that she can get the job done. I would like to ask the Government Leader, has she accepted or received any other undated, but signed, letters of resignation in the manner that Mr. Pollard had given her one?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I was concerned yesterday about the way we were being asked to advance toward the plebiscite in May. It was not with any sense of being awkward or disruptive that I denied the unanimous consent to deal with the whole plebiscite issue yesterday. The concern I have is that we are continually being told that this is a plebiscite simply to do with the boundary, and yet, despite those allegations, time and time again when you look at the plebiscite question, there are all kinds of preambles of what is going to happen in the Beaufort Sea, what is going to happen in the Mackenzie Valley, what is going to happen with employment, and so on. It seems to me that if it is just simply a matter of a boundary, then it should be made clear in the plebiscite question that that is all we are talking about, without having all these additions that tend to obscure what we are trying to do.

The other concern I have, again related to the plebiscite question, is the way in which we are trying to adjust ages, so that you can be this age to vote for that and another age to vote for something else. It is becoming an issue which I feel is becoming crowded and will make it very difficult for the people of the NWT to deal with something which, according to the statement Mr. Kakfwi made this morning, has been delegated to the Executive Council to deal with, without the input of the other Members of this House. I am very concerned about it.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Usually before you implement something you translate it into a policy that would be approved by the cabinet, so I would like to ask, even though we have not got to the implementation stage yet, has any part of this report now been adopted by government as government policy in any written form?

That is refreshing, Mr. Speaker, to hear that it is not a shelved report. I would like to ask the Government Leader, since work is involved, then, and three ordinary Members have, in fact, been chosen by a motion of this House to do this work, when do they get involved? The three people I am talking about are Mr. Antoine, Mr. Koe and Mr. Arvaluk. When do they get involved, if this is a working report?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to ask the Government Leader, now that she is in the House, what exactly is the status of the famous Beatty report? Is this a document that has been adopted by our government?

What I meant to confirm, then, is that before the plebiscite question is put, it has to have the approval of this Legislature and not simply the rubber stamp of the government.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Could the Minister for constitutional development explain to the House what the process is, since it seems to be a complex one? Exactly what is the process that arrives eventually at a completed plebiscite question?