David Krutko

Mr. Minister. Mr. Koe.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Can we get a breakdown on all those positions based on P1s, P2s, senior management levels in regard to disabled and women in this department? So can I get a breakdown by affirmative action?

Minister Miltenberger.

Agreed. Mr. Bromley.

Mr. Chair, I would just like to make it clear for the record, it does not say shall be involved, it says shall involve. The “be” isn’t there. Again, I think that it’s pretty clear from a letter that was sent to the Premier as Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Premier of the Northwest Territories which was April last year before the agreement was even contemplated being signed off, which was five months prior to the signing. It clearly stipulated six areas of contention that they had in the devolution agreement. The Gwich’in claim is a comprehensive claim. The president, the board of directors...

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Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 133-16(5), Northwest Territories Main Estimates, 2011-2012, and would like to report progress. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. In regard to the NGO funding, I know there’s a lot of community organizations that are struggling just to run their organizations. Again, is there sort of a time limit or an amount of times that you can apply for funding over a period of time? It is a Stabilization Fund to assist those organizations to stabilize their operation and get them on the way of being some sort of an independent process. So is there a possibility of looking at a different type of criteria where you can use this money up? I know that there’s some frustration with some community programs. I know...

Ms. Melhorn.