Julie Green

I have no further questions. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Can the Minister confirm that all seven staff are engaged in the development of this legislation? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have never seen the government jump on an opportunity in my life in the NWT. Crawl towards it is more the speed that it goes. So why staff this office on a whatif basis if they are waiting for the future to unfold? Why not put that money into the economic diversification that my colleagues have talked about until oil and gas is a going concern again? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am going to use a definition of a "specialist" as somebody who has unique, specialized educational attainment and work experience in the level of petroleum resources. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I would like to talk about the allocation to the petroleum resources division. I would like to know, of the seven staff who work there now, how many of them are specialists only within petroleum resources? Thank you.

Thank you, and for this particular example that the Minister used, can he correlate that to number of visitors in Fort Simpson and the amount of money that they spent? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I respect the Minister's answer on this, but I'm asking her to go further. I'm asking her to be a champion. She's already said she believes in the fact that our tap water is some of the best water in the world, so I'm wondering if she can use her authority to get as many GNWT public servants as possible to take the NWT "Love NWT Water" pledge and also to promote the message that bottled water is unnecessary, through Bear Facts and any other communication means she has at her disposal.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I think it is good practice to measure outcomes for grants and contributions, and so I'm not hearing that the Minister is interested in doing that and I'm puzzled by that. Can the Minister commit to doing a systematic evaluation of the outcomes of this program that goes beyond just the number of people who visited the NWT? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. I know that, in some of our government offices, even in the executive offices here at the Legislative Assembly, you still find bottled water coolers. At meetings in GNWT-sponsored events, bottled water is still being offered. If we believe in the quality of our municipal water supplies, we need to walk the talk. So in that vein, will the Minister take the lead in Cabinet and have bottled water removed from the executive offices in this building? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am not looking for a number of total visitors. I acknowledge that, in fact, they have gone up. Let's take the Tourism Product Diversification Program; what kind of evaluation happens annually on that program? Thank you.