Thank you, Mr. Speaker, a supplementary. I would like to ask the Government Leader if and when the Ministers will be planning to travel into the communities. Mahsi.

(Translation) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is directed to the Government Leader. If there is somebody working for us and they do not like it -- I was in Trout Lake and Nahanni Butte recently; I was all over these communities. They told me a lot of things. Maybe we could work things out and make it better.

(Translation) Thank you. I am going to be speaking in my language. Since the beginning of this session of the Legislative Assembly I have sat back and listened. I have been a chief for a long time and have attended meetings for over 10 years. Every time I go to a meeting, there is one thing that is always talked about. When we talk about something, we finish talking about it and then we make resolutions on it.

When we talk about things in this House here, it seems like things are going in all different directions. I do not feel it is going right for me. I am just telling you what I think. (Translation ends)

I have been here since being elected as an MLA, and I am concerned about the way business is conducted in the House. We say we want to make the Legislative Assembly as northern as possible, yet we follow parliamentary procedure and the orders of the day. I find it very confusing, because all these years as a chief and going to different meetings, we have an agenda and we deal with the agenda; we make an agreement and move on. But what I find here is that we are going all over the place. Only at certain times can you ask a question, and only at certain times can you speak. If we are going to make it a truly northern-type of meeting it should reflect how meetings are conducted in the communities. This is rather foreign to me, and I am saying this because I have a certain amount of frustration in how things are being done in here.

(Translation) What I am saying is that at the rules committee meetings we should talk about this and change them a bit. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to make a few comments on the document, "Strength at Two Levels." As you all know, my name is in the report. I was involved from February until June in putting together the operation, organization and management portion of this report. I would just like to say that I did not see the final report until everybody else received it. I was not familiar with the final version to clear up our situation.

My understanding of this report was to make recommendations to the government as a blueprint for this new government on how to approach government programs and services into the communities. The intent of this document was to take it to the doorstep of the communities. The community government structure had a lot of concern about it during my involvement with the report because as a Dene coming from a community in the western part of the Northwest Territories -- we have difficulty in some communities where there are different structures. For example, in Fort Simpson there is a village council, a band council and a Metis local, so it is very difficult to figure out what programs and services go with which structure. The Constitutional Commission that is going around is there to address and try to clear up this problem. It coincides with this report. The intent of this document was not to describe what community self-government should look like, but rather to make recommendations on what should go into the communities rather than describing what the community should look like. I would like to leave it at this. Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is to, probably, the Minister of Aboriginal Rights, and it is with regard to chiefs' salaries. During the week of November 18 in Fort Rae at the Dene leadership meeting, six of the present cabinet Members were present at the meeting where the chiefs requested funding for chiefs' salaries. What is the Minister of Aboriginal Rights doing about this? Mahsi.