David Krutko

Transportation, capital investment expenditures, airports, not previously authorized, $369,000.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. My questions are with regard to the executive operations of $2.2 million and the devolution process. I’m not really clear how to read it. It says to support transition and implementation. Usually implementation takes place after you have a final agreement. How can you be implementing something that you are still negotiating?

The other aspect of the resources is to provide Aboriginal participation in negotiations. Again, we are leaving out a large portion of our population on the Aboriginal participation in this process, as we all know. We have some 4,500 individuals being...

Deputy minister.

General comments, Ms. Bisaro.

Can we move to page 5, Education, Culture and Employment, education and culture, not previously authorized, $9.709 million.

So the $70,000, is that professional fees or is that actually given to each of the organizations to be represented on this panel that you’re talking about?

General comments. Next I have Ms. Bisaro and then Mrs. Groenewegen. Ms. Bisaro.

Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses in.

For the record, Mr. Minister, can you introduce your witness.

Mr. Chair, again, I think this process is too top heavy. It’s basically run out of Yellowknife. I think that you have to start doing workshops and having these meetings in the communities. I know in the Mackenzie Delta we have been requesting having a water conference and we have been talking about the Peel River watershed. There’s a major effort being made between the Yukon government and the Gwich’in Tribal Council to develop a land use plan for the Peel River watershed. Again, that’s another government in another jurisdiction and we seem to have a better relationship with the Yukon...

Thank you, Minister. Welcome, witness. Any general comments in regard to the supplementary appropriation bill? Mr. Ramsay.