David Krutko

With regard to the $12.7 million for deferred contributions, what are the deferred contributions for or from?

I’ll call Committee of the Whole to order. Today we have under consideration Bills 2, 4, 7, Tabled Document 62-16(4) and Minister’s Statement 47-16(4), Committee Report, 5-16(4). What is the wish of the committee? Mrs. Groenewegen.

Total grants and contributions, $175,000.

Total grants and contributions, $130,000. Agreed?

Another suggestion is maybe we could do some research and development into putting bridges across the river such as the Peel River and possibly the Mackenzie up around Tsiigehtchic. That’s another research and development project you can do to complete that work. All you have to do is some geotech work in regards to identifying the different types of soils and find a base for the crossings. If anything, you’re looking at probably a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Geotech work, give you the baseline and start looking at the possibility of developing that. Again, one of the biggest...

Just for clarification, I believe the question was how much. Do you have the actual amounts?

Minister of Environment.

Agreed. Moving on to page 13-33, work performed on behalf of others, information item. Agreed?

The other question was how long is the agreement for?

I’d like to thank the Minister for that, because I think that’s the type of thinking and type of support we’re going to need from either non-governmental organizations, the private sector and do our part to get these tents to the people in Haiti. My issue is, we have to find a way of getting them there. I’d just like to ask the Minister, have you spoken to anyone in regard to the Prime Minister’s office or someone in Ottawa to see exactly how they can work with ourselves, as the Government of the Northwest Territories, to find a way to get these tents to the people in Haiti.