Daryl Dolynny

Madam Chair, again I appreciate the fact that the Minister does have a list of supporting organizations that are recipients of funding. My specific question is for the Artists Run Community Centre. What does the Minister intend to tell this group of artists – and they are a fairly large group of artists – what kind of support can we provide them and facilitating and fostering their field so that really it goes in line with what this government is doing, trying to promote the work of artisans and yet there’s no facility for them to be promoted in? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. To respond we’ll go to Mr. Devitt.

I’d like to welcome the witnesses into the House. I hope you’ve caught your breath. I saw you racing in here on your bike, so that’s good. We’re going to be opening up the floor here to general comments. What we’ve been doing here is opening comments to the Members, and the Minister will have an opportunity for reply at the end. We’d ask that the Minister take notes and hope to address the individual Members if there are specific questions in the opening comments. With that, I will open up the floor to general comments on Transportation starting with Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Ms. Iatridis.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. For that we’ll go to Mr. Devitt.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Transport Canada is in the process of reviewing all runway lengths throughout Canada and NWT is no different. Can the Minister or delegate team give us an update on some of the outcomes based on those reviews, and how does that affect the runways that we have currently throughout the Northwest Territories? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Obviously we are discussing issues regarding page 17. Inclusive to this page is the line item under culture and heritage. I want to spend a few minutes here on that note, knowing full well that ECE and ITI work jointly with the arts.

The other day tabled in the House by the Minister of ITI was a supporting statement which basically talked in favour of supporting of the arts. Such statements as an NWT artisan make positive economic and cultural impact on our territory and others. I’m not denying the fact that the department or the Minister, obviously, support these areas...

Thank you, Minister Lafferty. Education, Culture and Employment, activity summary, advanced education, operations expenditure summary, $46.568 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Minister Ramsay. Does the committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Moses. We’ll just give it a second to circulate a copy of the motion.

The motion is on the floor. The motion is in order. The motion is not debateable. The motion is carried.

---Carried

I’d like to thank the committee for consideration of activity summary under page 10-17 in the Department of Education, Culture and Employment. This has been deferred. We’ll carry on.

Page 10-18, Education, Culture and Employment, activity summary, education and culture, grants and contributions, grants, $52,000. Agreed?