David Ramsay

The issue of lifeguards at Fred Henne beach has never been an issue about money. I think service is going to be required there and the department will find the money. We’ll go through a supplementary appropriation if we have to. It is about having the service there, but there are a lot of other moving parts to the issue such as where do you find the trained lifeguards, where do you train them, how do you get them ready for this summer. There will be a number of challenges other than having that service at Fred Henne Park. It’s something, like I said earlier, that if they are going to make that...

We’re mirroring the regulations that are in place and it remains to be seen what will happen once that happens and into the future. I guess that’s a decision for another day past April 1st.

Yes, that was in the actuals from ’12-13, Mr. Chairman. Thanks.

Part of the explanation might be that we tried to put some support immediately into the industry here in the Northwest Territories, and that’s why you look at this program being a rebate program and some support to the film industry. That could have been the thinking that was involved in that.

Certainly, we’re moving forward, as well, with our film strategy. Hopefully, that is going to outline some other areas, as the Member indicated, that we could avail ourselves up to grow the industry here in the Northwest Territories. We’ve had a great deal of success and we believe the future is certainly...

Thank you. If we did that type of evaluation, we wouldn’t have any government positions outside of a few centres in the southern part of the territory. So we can’t just go off of this straight-up cost. I mean, it’s a cost to government, it’s a cost to accomplish what we need to accomplish.

Again, this was a transfer of responsibilities. We believe wholeheartedly that the activity in the Beaufort-Delta is going to be there. That’s the location of the three anchor fields for the Mackenzie Gas Project, it’s a home base for the offshore and the potential in the offshore. There’s $2 billion in work...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As Minister, I have requested that report and hopefully BDIC and the department get that report as soon as possible.

We need to have that dialogue with the community. We had a meeting, and I thank the Member for attending that meeting that we had at the ski club a few weeks back. We want to have some more dialogue with the community. We have had input from a number of community members on our website. The answer is still yes, if having lifeguards at Fred Henne beach is going to make that beach safer, we’ll try our best to have lifeguards there. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The department will collect revenues from the administration of our petroleum interests in the NWT and these include non-refundable rentals on the Pointed Mountain oil and gas leases held by Lone Pine Resources, issuance fees and fees for services under the Frontier Lands Registration Regulations, for instance, there’s a $250 fee for the issuance of an exploration licence, and rentals due to the Crown for exploration licences as well.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Part of that $150,000 earmarked for looking at LNG around the territory would include items like storage. It would also include looking at the possibility of getting LNG into other communities that have all-weather road access that are currently on diesel in the Northwest Territories, and that’s something that we continue to look at. Thank you.

The uptake has been very good in all regions across the Northwest Territories. For a breakdown of where the contributions have gone, we could get that for the Member, but in our estimation it’s been spread out across the territory and it is accessible by any school in the Northwest Territories.