Bob McLeod

We’ll commit to getting information from NTEC that we can provide to the Member with regard to information on potential hydro in his riding.

I will look forward to the e-mail.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will respond in a general way and then I will have Mr. Vician. I think the best way to look at it is, when we had a downturn in the economy and two of the three diamond mines shut down for extended periods, the people that were laid off were mainly southern workers that didn’t live in the Northwest Territories. So the mines went to special effort to keep Aboriginal and northern employees on and they did that until the economy recovered and I think things may have changed when the mines moved from open pit to underground mining where the skill sets required a change...

The operation of parks is by contract and I guess what I meant was they don’t collect enough revenues to pay for all of the contract. So they collect revenues and then they get a top-up from the department is generally how we work with our contractors. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I know there’s an election coming up so maybe the Member wants to make sure everybody has a chicken in their pot or a turkey.

We do have programs to be accessed to provide for agricultural development. In the Member’s riding, in Deline there’s a group that have gotten together and they’re going to be raising chickens and turkeys and collecting eggs. So, definitely, it’s possible, and under the Growing Forward Project there are about eight or nine different categories that can be funded through that program. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We can provide those statistics to the Member. We have it here.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We are working on finalizing a hydro strategy and we are working with NTEC to develop regional strategies. Funding has been identified for expansion of residual heat projects.

I think that would be the appropriate course of action. Thank you.

The agreement was signed in the 15th Assembly and that agreement is binding for the life of the project. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

We work very closely with NWT Tourism, which is our marketing arm, and we’ll make sure that they have all these links, if they don’t already have them, and we’ll commit to sharing the results of this report as soon as we get it. Thank you, Mr. Chair.