Bob McLeod

We distribute it to all departments, which it does not include NTPC because there is no businesses that provide that service and it is not our intention to look at other forms of generating power, but the boards and agencies are covered under either health or education. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Not at this time.

We’re proposing $1 million for 2011-12.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Probably four years ago the federal government announced that they were investing approximately $39 million between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories to expand and improve on the broadband infrastructure. Nunavut got the majority of the money. I think they got $25 million and the Northwest Territories got $14 million. This is our contribution to assist with the O and M and administration with the Falcon Communications. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe that the page the Member is looking at, this is a shared service that we share with ENR. I think the majority, 75 percent of it is with regard to ENR. We also do some GIS work on behalf of the federal government and it’s basically a remote sensing program. Whether it is something that can be utilized for geophysical surveys and so on would be something that we would have to look into. I don’t know if the technology that we have that we operate would lend itself to doing that type of work, but if it doesn’t fit there we can probably look at in other federal...

Thank you for those comments. I think hydro is a very exciting area. As I indicated, the Premier will be briefing committee in the near future. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We are quite prepared to do that. Maybe we will get a higher mark next year with the CFIB. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, we reduced the number of personnel from seven to six. We are continuing to have the division continue to focus on the Mackenzie pipeline. They are working on the permitting. They are also working on the communities and making sure the communities are aware of what is going on and also making sure that we are ready when the decision is made to go ahead and also we are doing work on the community gas conversions that we are planning to do once the pipeline is constructed. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

We do work closely with the Power Corporation. We have the MECC committee, also we have deputy minister level committees, so I think we have that covered. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe as well and that’s why it was done. It will be application based. The money will be distributed through a contribution. Thank you, Mr. Chair.