Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yesterday in the Legislative Assembly we raised the issue of the brand new Yellowknife correctional centre. That is another capital project for our great city of Yellowknife. Along with that capital project, Mr. Speaker, comes a brand new paving project for the city of Yellowknife and the highway coming into Yellowknife. Along with that also comes millions of dollars of assistance to the gold mines in Yellowknife. Along with that comes the majority of effort of the economic development department and the Minister of RWED and that whole department in encouraging diamond-cutting facilities and polishing facilities in Yellowknife. On top of that, they are going to take a trade mission to Nunavut for the businesses in Yellowknife. I congratulate the government for all those things they are doing for our great capital.

Mr. Speaker, we have many, many other communities out there. We have many regions out there that are going through economic hard times. We do not have enough money to assist the fishermen who come off the lake after 40 below in the winter, frostbitten, skin-tight, working hard, pulling nets. What do we do with those people? We cut $150,000 from their subsidy. That is a whole winter freight subsidy for those poor hardworking men and women. We are cutting drug and alcohol programs. We cut funding to the small communities that harvest renewable resources and try to make a living by producing final products for those, but yet we can continually invest in our great capital city, Yellowknife, and we do that by putting budgets forward in this House that call for renovations. Then we change them to new projects. No debate, no process for Ordinary Members in this Assembly to have any input into making those decisions. I guess this is a new era, a new way of governing. It must be a government that cannot see beyond our city limits. There are people out there who depend heavily on this government. I would like to ask for unanimous consent to continue, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to table a tender that was in the Globe and Mail on Wednesday, July 21, 1999. It is a tender that the Government of the Northwest Territories intends to construct a new North Slave correctional facility complex in Yellowknife and a correctional facility in Inuvik. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to report to the Legislative Assembly that the Standing Committee on Social Programs has reviewed Bill 19, An Act to Amend the Labour Standards Act, and I wish to report that Bill 19 is ready for consideration in committee of the whole and Mr. Speaker I seek unanimous consent to waive rule 70(5) and have Bill 19 move into committee of the whole for today. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to go back to item 6. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to extend question period.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. When you change drastically the scope of work on any project and you are changing to a brand new facility, you are changing the whole intent of how those dollars were presented in this House and how they were voted on. I do not know how Members of this Legislative Assembly would have voted on this specific item. Nobody is going to know that, but what I do know, is that this government has a responsibility to other communities in the Northwest Territories other than our capital city of Yellowknife that is getting all of the diamond facilities, investment into both gold mines, paved highways, highway projects, millions and millions and millions of dollars going into this city during an election year. What I asked the Premier is not only to consider moving this project to one of the other communities, after all there are other communities that live outside of Yellowknife. There are other communities. Look at moving it out of the capital city into one of the other regions that need an economic boost as well. Will the Premier consider that prior to us passing

the supplementary in this House?

Sometimes, Mr. Speaker, it takes a bold move on government and it takes a move on the government other than just to think and agree with your briefing papers, it takes a move on government to make a political decision that is best for all of the public interest, not only the public interest of Yellowknife that Mr. Kakfwi is talking about. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question was also to the Premier. The scope of work of this project, the Yellowknife Correctional Centre, has changed drastically. It has changed from a renovation of a building to a brand new facility with no footprint on the ground, nothing holding it in this town. The money voted in this Legislative Assembly was voted to renovate an existing building for Yellowknife. That is what it was voted on. Now, you are looking at a brand new building. I understand that the Minister made a short comment on looking at moving it in other areas.

This government has the responsibility not only to keep its costs down, but it also has a responsibility to the people of the Northwest Territories to look at economic diversity in the Northwest Territories. We cannot put all our money in Yellowknife for the simple reason that is the cheapest place to do it for now. We should also be looking at the South Slave. We should be looking at other regions in the Northwest Territories that are harder pressed with our hardship right now, our economic times, than Yellowknife is. I ask the Premier if he will consider going over this with his Cabinet colleagues and his Minister of Justice to consider the other people in the Northwest Territories besides Yellowknife and consider putting it in another community outside of this community because there is nothing holding that capital project to this community anymore. It is a new facility. You can build it anywhere. You can build it in the South Slave cheaper than you can build it in Yellowknife.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question again is to the Premier. When one of your Ministers deliberately misleads Members, what are the ramifications of that? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Normally, when you go out to tender, you have your money approved from this Legislative Assembly. I guess I have a concern, Mr. Speaker, because last week in the Globe and Mail, on July 21st, a southern-based newspaper, this government is paying for huge ads in there now. What are they paying these huge ads for? Because we do not have people qualified in the Northwest Territories. We do not have architectural firms qualified. We do not have contractors qualified. We have to look for them in southern Canada now. What are they tendering? The Government of the Northwest Territories intends to construct a new North Slave Correctional facility complex in Yellowknife and a correctional facility in Inuvik. That is how we find out about it, Ordinary Members, that a decision is made. Is this your normal way of doing business, Mr. Premier? Is this a normal way this government does business? Thank you.