Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, at the request of the Standing Committee on Governance and Economic Development, I wish to table the following document entitled, N.W.T. Recreation and Sports Board - Final Recommendations Report. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I can certainly provide that information to the Member, but just for clarification it was a letter from the Gwich'in Development Corporation that indicated clearly to us that they were no longer interested in being the prime contractor because their biggest supporter or biggest partner in the venture was a firm from the Yukon and they had pulled out. That was the reason why the Gwich'in no longer wanted to be the lead contractor.

To my knowledge, Mr. Chairman, yes.

Mr. Chairman, if the whole contracting process had failed, we would have went back to Cabinet with a request to go to public tender. But that particular contract had not totally collapsed because it just reversed. Instead of the Gwich'in taking the lead as the prime contractor, Dowland was the prime contractor and they had an agreement in letter form from the Gwich'in Development Corporation that the Gwich'in Development Corporation would still be a partner in the negotiated contract.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Krutko.

Mr. Chairman, I don't have the exact date, but it was in the fall of 2002 that we received a letter from the Gwich'in Development Corporation who, at the time, were partners with Dowland, that they were no longer the prime contractor and that they were no longer interested in negotiating the contract. They pulled out, in other words. That left it open for Dowland to continue as a negotiated contract.

The contract is with Dowland.

Mr. Chairman, It's a negotiated contract, yes.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have a return to oral question asked by Mr. Nitah on March 12th, 2003, regarding the recognition of Ndilo as a separate community. Mr. Speaker, the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs does not fund Ndilo as a separate community. There has been an internal decision by the Yellowknives Dene First Nation to consider Ndilo as a part of Dettah, which is a separate community from Yellowknife. There have been negotiations between the City of Yellowknife and the Yellowknives Dene First Nation to have the First Nation take over the provision of municipal services and for mutual cooperation on common issues as part of the recently signed memorandum of understanding between the two. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.