Bob McLeod

Much work has been done on the oil and gas strategy in the latter stage of the 17th Legislative Assembly, including the release of the public engagement report “Pathways to Petroleum Development.” The strategy was recently identified as a mandate priority for the 18th Legislative Assembly. The resource sector is the single-largest contributor to the Northwest Territories’ economy. Our territory has world-class oil and natural gas reserves and has had an active petroleum industry for a century. The draft strategy is being reviewed and edited by a Government of Northwest Territories...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Primarily for helping build business capacity in the Aboriginal governments, Aboriginal capacity building and community consultations, as well as resource pre-development program. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I didn’t understand his question.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess it is the first I heard of it. If the committee wants information in that fashion, we will endeavour to do so. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. There are some members that are on both, but they’re essentially different and they’re not carbon copies of both boards. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

As I said, the Government of Canada’s recent adoption of the United Nations declaration in accordance with Canada’s laws and Constitution is a very encouraging and tangible demonstration of the federal government’s renewed commitment to Canada’s Aboriginal people. The Government of the Northwest Territories will continue to work with the federal government and Aboriginal governments to further the promotion and protection of Aboriginal and treaty rights. The successful conclusion of modern treaties and self-government agreements can be seen as the ultimate expression of free, prior, and...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That is our expectation. We would hope to aspire to that before the end of the term of the 18th Legislative Assembly.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We’d have to dig that up. We just have the actual that was awarded for 2014-15 right now. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Sorry, we provided $225,000 in 2014-15. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the questions from the Members.

Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess it’s the first I heard that NFTI had some problems. We’re prepared to go and talk to them. If applications are submitted on a timely basis there’s usually no problem. We’ll follow up with NFTI and see exactly what the problem is then. Thank you, Mr. Chair.