Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, to the Minister of Finance, given the time and money going into the efforts to make the Dene Nation pay the payroll tax, the Minister must feel the financial return would be worth the effort. Can the Minister give an indication of the amount of money his department estimates will be collected as payroll tax from the Dene Nation?

Thank you. I would like to direct my question to the Minister of Finance. One of the reasons, Madam Speaker, why the payroll tax was supported in the first place was because of a rebate. I would like to ask the Minister, of the $2 million, how much of that do northerners expect to get back as a rebate?

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Can I ask the Minister of Finance to give some indication of the additional income to the Government of the Northwest Territories resulting from the payroll tax after administration costs had been taken into account.

Thank you. My supplementary to the Minister of Finance, Madam Speaker, is when the payroll tax was introduced there was an indication that there would be an increased cost in administration associated with this tax. A few weeks ago, we heard in this House about the tax loophole which allowed $200,000 in potential revenues to disappear from the fly-in/fly-out employees. Has the government done an analysis of the revenue versus administration expenses on this tax?

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I have a question to direct to the Minister of Finance. One of the important reasons why the payroll tax was introduced was to capture tax revenues from those who work in fly-in/fly-out operations, and live outside the Northwest Territories. Has the payroll tax been successful in capturing this income?

Madam Speaker, a final supplementary again to the acting Premier. Would the acting Premier agree that, in taking one side's interpretation over the other, the government is, essentially, lending its support and becoming an active participant in the treaty issue?

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, there are occasions when the Government of the Northwest Territories requires an interpretation of a treaty to determine the application of a program. For some issues, there is an interpretation that both parties to the treaties agree with. However, for other unresolved issues, the federal government takes a very different interpretation than the aboriginal groups. In those cases, does the Government of the Northwest Territories adopt the federal interpretation or the aboriginal interpretation?

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Does the government take an active role in the interpretation of those treaties or does it leave that interpretation up to the aboriginal groups and the federal government to work out?

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, I would like to direct my question to the acting Premier. Madam Speaker, many aboriginal groups in the Northwest Territories, particularly in the west, signed treaties with the federal government over the past 100 years. Does the government of the Northwest Territories acknowledge and recognize the treaties between the aboriginal groups in the Northwest Territories and the federal government?