Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As a result of a public meeting held December 4, 1991 in Coppermine, here are some of the concerns brought to me to address to the Government Leader.

More training opportunities for trades people to get training at the local level must be made available. They would prefer not to go to Fort Smith or Inuvik or other campuses but that these training services be delivered at the community level.

The government must develop a good working relationship with private industry to encourage environmentally sound development of our mineral and renewable resources while creating employment and training in areas relevant to the future of our area.

There must be more exposure of our young people to the outside world and the opportunities available to the public sector in training, employment and life. Examples are Expo, student exchanges and school trips. Focus should be on longer term, such as a span between 20 and 50 years, because of the explosion in the number of our youth and the lack of resources that exist in the following areas: training, employment, social and economic development, housing and school in general.

More money is needed for economic development at the grassroots level such as funding for restaurants, beauty salons, clothing stores, and so on, and to encourage the building of these facilities capable of handling these businesses.

I would like to table these at the appropriate time. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Being a new Member I have to side with the honourable Member, Mr. Arvaluk. If I am going to support this motion of Mr. Gargan's I might as well come forward and make all kinds of motions, too, that we need a whole bunch of capital projects. But I am not going to. I think there has to be a better system of delivering capital projects where they are most needed, not where they are most wanted. I can speak because in my years of living in Coppermine the only noticeable project was a tank farm which was situated in the wrong place in the community.

I am not going to support the motion. I am new to this ball game, and I have not learned the ins and outs of how this kind of system works, because I come from a more simple type of government where we could go on discussing items for any length of time, as Mr. Antoine suggested. Therefore I have to learn. Just give me a chance. But I am not going to rush through pushing capital projects. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Minister responsible for Municipal and Community Affairs. Would your department, along with this government, be willing to explore an idea regarding the Municipal Act to guarantee elders representation on hamlet councils?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To this report, "Strength at Two Levels". The region that I represent, the Kitikmeot, is new to this sort of ball game. We are what you would call different from the Dene people because just recently we moved from isolation to a community called Coppermine, and Bernard Harbour went dead; Reid Island went dead; so everyone moved to Coppermine. I would like to see this document go at a slower pace for us people who are new to the idea of self-government, because if we rush with this program, half the people will not understand what self-government is. How can we tackle issues -- with a birthrate higher than the rest of Canada -- if we are unable to sustain a livelihood for our younger people, our children who are growing up? And most important, if we are unable to deliver good services such as education at the post secondary level, matriculated students who will be well-schooled in the field of professionalism such as doctors, lawyers, town planners -- for me, this is the only solution, to realize self-government will become a reality sooner or later. I would like to see it come when I am still alive. I would like this government to take its time on it and not rush through it because we are looking at all kinds of situations, all kinds of dilemmas.

Canada is confused about the killing of Meech Lake, division, the Polar Commission and who knows what other commissions there will be. It is going to be very complicated to understand which way we are going. But I realize we have to work on this sort of government. I think it is a very good, positive way of bringing our people to govern their own concerns, to make their own decisions at the local level and not be too far removed nor to be dependent on bureaucrat positions to make our decisions which will affect us in the end. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.