Bob McLeod

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I haven’t been approached by anybody from Deline to assist with funding for a caribou hunt and the increase in CHAP funding was done with the understanding that what we wanted to do was help reduce the high cost of food, ensure that the benefit was equitable and transparent to all communities in the Northwest Territories, reduce economic disparities between large and small communities and it should be consistent with land claim obligations where these exist. The CHAP program was developed to assist harvesters and communities throughout the Northwest Territories and so...

I wanted to clarify before I left with Mr. Bromley, he had asked me a question in his general comments about revenues. I didn’t have a chance; I forgot to address it in the response. I just wanted to indicate that the main reason for the reduction in the revenues was that we reduced the interest rates that were charged by the Business Development Institute of Canada while the economy was in a downturn for two years, so that is why the revenues dropped in that area. I just wanted to add that in. Thank you for your indulgence.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Most of our revenue from parks we work out arrangements through the parks operator and it’s sort of like on a commission basis and I think that’s why it doesn’t show up on the revenue sheet. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, we do, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. All that information is available in the public domain. We also put on open houses where if anybody wants to understand how it works, we’re very pleased for anybody who is interested to come in and show them how it works, show them all the information we collect. The geosciences information that comes through the NTGO arrangements we have with the federal government. It’s all there, it’s all available to the public.

With regard to evaluation, if what’s seen to be required would be for us to hire a consultant and to do an evaluation I’m sure we could do that.

With regard to the hydrokinetic project in Fort Simpson, the project started this summer. It was designed to produce 14 to 15 kilowatt hours per day and it was only producing at four or five. There was some problem getting it to work at maximum efficiency. The deflectors that were in place weren’t designed to deal with deadheads, I guess they call it; those trees that are submerged and float just below the surface. It came and it moved the hydrokinetic...

We do distribute the memorandum of understanding to all departments, and all departments, because it is government policy, follow the policy of the government. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

We have signed an agreement with the proponents which still stands. There are some appendices that have to still be negotiated, mainly in the area of transportation and health. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We work very closely with Education, Culture and Employment to promote all artists, whether it’s visual artists or performing artists and I think we’ve been very successful in doing so. Some of the promotions that we’ve done, we’ve continued to support artists, but also I’ve had many accolades from performing artist who have accessed funding through the SEED program so that they can go out to different festivals. Some of them even go to storytelling festivals in Hawaii and so on.

In addition to that, we also maintain an NWT artists database. We have an NWT Arts Branding...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. On the previous page the $225,000 was for the NWT Fishermen’s Federation, which is made up of a consortium of fishers that fish on Great Slave Lake. The $550,000 is we want to promote and develop local markets for not only fish but also country food. For example, fish in Great Slave Lake, we’d like to see it served in the hospitals, we’d like to see it served in corrections facilities and also made available for consumption by people, because we think fish is a very healthy food. So if we can distribute and sell it locally rather than shipping it to Winnipeg for sale...