Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just have one more question. I just do not understand it. It is residential Harbour Way in Tuktoyaktuk. There is a lot of money being put towards it. To me, it sounds like when you say Harbour Way, it is a marine project or something like that. I am just wondering what it is doing in Municipal and Community Affairs. If they could just let me know that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just have a question on the bridge for Rae. It says, 2001-2002, $375,000, then 2002-2003, $5,000. I am just wondering, are you going to build a bridge and then paint it after? Is there air there, that $5,000 go ahead on 2000-2001?

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Thank you. Just one other thing, I would like to know if the Minister can get his department to look into how selections are done for coaches. The reason I am saying this is because there was one team that was going to be going to the summer games. They went through two camps and then the coaches were changed. All of sudden, two team Members were changed and two were dropped because the coaches wanted to have players from their own town on that team. Where before they got a coach, they had no representation at all. Things like this are happening, so maybe the Minister can look into some of these so they do not happen again. Maybe have some guidelines for employees and all the recreation people around the North so they can be fair. They are doing this to young people. It will scar them for life. They do not know why they are pulled. They have not made any mistakes or anything. They are pulled from a team because a coach wants to put some players from his own team when a new coach comes in.

We had that experience in Rae. I do not see how those two kids are ever going to get over it. Just so it does not happen again, maybe something can be done about it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a concern similar to Mr. Nitah, where some of the smaller communities cannot go to some of these games. There is a problem when you have an all-star team from the Northwest Territories which consists of players that have not won a territorial championship. When there is a team that stays home that wins a territorial championship, there is a selection from a different community, a larger community. The selection is done by people who are from all parts of the Northwest Territories, have never seen these players before, and some of them are never given the chance to try out. I have a concern with that.

This happened a number of years ago, and I think someone else mentioned it in the last sitting. What Sport North should be doing is they should be going to the territorial championship teams and saying look, you are our best team in the Northwest Territories. You select a few players from some of the other communities so we can spread out membership in the teams. I think we can sit down and should be able to get something constructive for all the interested members, along with the Sport North group there.

Another thing is this Aboriginal Sport Circle. When I heard about how they were going to set up the indigenous games down in Alberta for the next Arctic Winter Games, I was really disappointed in how they were selecting the teams to represent the territories. What they did was say you and you bring this team. You bring that team. They do not go by which teams are going to be the best team to represent the Territories. They just want representation from every community, but what they are doing is setting up some chance for failure. I was involved in one of the games. I am sure a few of the Members here might have been, where the way they did the selection of teams was just how I said. There is nobody from Inuvik, nobody from Fort Resolution, nobody from Fort Providence, so you guys have these sports. Rae-Edzo had all the championship soccer teams. They had all the championship volleyball teams. They could only bring one team each.

There was a good baseball team in Hay River. They could not bring that team because they were not selected for baseball. Some other team was selected for baseball. When I went out to support one of my teams from the Northwest Territories, I was watching our team get slaughtered. The score was ridiculous. There are no mercy rules, either.

We set up our teams for failure. We cannot continue to do these things. Because of that, I support Mr. McLeod in saying why can we not put an aboriginal person in Sport North along with who we have there already, and maybe just look at the Aboriginal Sports Circle again? Is it the right thing we are doing? What kind of mandate do we have? Who are they representing? I know that they have been having problems with the people in the North Slave because that is not the way you run sports, you know. North Slave were the first ones to go to the Aboriginal Games down south. They brought three busloads. Then the next year the Indigenous Games came and Sport North got involved. So it was being done before Sport North. What I am saying is, yes, let us work together, but let us do it right. I think with the people interested, the MLAs, the volunteers, I think we can put it back on track again.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was going to say the property tax assessments they do because of the development of land in other areas, I am sort of puzzled. They do not own the land. They cannot sell the land. Yet the market price goes up. The homeowner does not have anything to gain, whether he sells the home or not. He only sells the home. The land is not his to sell, so the property value goes up and he has to pay for that? Or she? I do not understand and I am puzzled. Thank you.

I am wondering, if they did not go to the communities, how do they know there is still property there? How do they know when they send you a bill, perhaps the house burnt down and is not there anymore. It is hard to do an assessment sitting in a six storey building in Yellowknife. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On the increase in property assessments, Mr. Murray said because of the development and property value, an assessment has not been done since the 80s. In some of the communities, there has been no change since the 80s. The roads have never been upgraded and no highways are being installed. The service has not changed. The water trucks are still the same. Maybe they are developing land in other areas, but those lands are developed and the people using those lands are paying for it through their mortgages.

I am wondering, when they do assessments, they do not go to the communities and see the homeowners and talk to them about what they think the property value is. I do not know who did the assessments in my region, but the people are not happy. Some of them have appealed in May and June of last year and have not yet received a response. Some elders are being assessed. I am wondering if they have consulted with the residents, or do they look on the outside and have a figure for the different sizes of property? How did they do it, and why did they not respond to the appeals? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, since the Highway No. 3 realignment and resurfacing is happening, and they are crushing gravel right next to Rae, we can connect that and do some crushing there. I understand there is some work done on the Dempster Highway, and he can get the other half. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We all need gravel. Granular material is needed in some of the smaller communities. The only way to get a crusher up there is on the winter road. I do not think they like to crush in the winter, so sometimes a crusher has to go up there and stay until summer, where they crush in the summer and then come out. I think sometimes they have to pay for the whole year for the machine to just sit there. I am just wondering, is there a way they can look at plans on how they can crush for all the smaller communities if they are in one group, like Wha Ti, Snare Lake, Gameti?