Bob McLeod

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...

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.

We’ve been spending that money to get more detail and information in order to finalize the Hydro Strategy and I’d like to ask Mr. Vician to go into more detail. He’s been working directly with NTEC on this, Mr. Chair.

That’s correct, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’d like to ask Michelle Beard to respond to that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thank the Members for those general comments. With regard to some of the specific comments that Mr. Abernethy raised, we certainly agree that we need to promote investment in the smaller communities and I think that’s evidenced by putting on the EDO in Ulukhaktok. I think the air rates were killing us, so it was a lot better to have somebody right there to maximize the funding. I think it was when Senator Eggleton came and talked about the anti-poverty, and that certainly cemented to me that job creation was a very large factor in reducing poverty. Certainly the more...

Mr. Chairman, I believe that we communicated that to him, but Mr. Pollard, being an outstanding former Member of this Assembly, I am sure he understood how the consensus government works. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We committed to provide information so perhaps it will become clearer when the information is provided. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.