Katrina Nokleby

[Microphone turned off] ...will leave, and we will bring in our director of finance and administration. My apologies. I tried to catch you. No. It's all good.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Maybe after, the Member can provide me with the location so that I could answer, but if that's the case, and there is an area that's not being used, and the department doesn't really want the overnight camping, we could definitely explore whether or not we could open it for a day use type situation. I would just need to look at that particular case. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The WSCC has 16 people in the Northwest Territories who are working on responding to COVID-19, either through direct contact with stakeholders or in the research and development of resources. This does not include our communications group. To ensure that stakeholders have timely information and assistance, our group in Nunavut has three people who are also being utilized as backup whenever needed to answer any enquiries. Additional help is being pulled, or can be pulled, from other areas in the organization, but where people have occupational health and safety knowledge...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm actually going to respond to your first question about the BDIC by allocation. I do have that answer for you right now, by region. In the North Slave, we spent $1.07 million. In the South Slave, we spent $2.07 million. In the Sahtu, we spent about $20,000. In the Deh Cho, we spent $212,000. In the Beaufort-Delta, we spent $1.3 million. So that's the BDIC, and I'm just going to try to find in my many schedules the SEED one. My apologies, committee. All right.

With SEED, by region, I've got a few different breakdowns, here. Northwest Territories-wide, we've spent $366...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The reason we are exploring that option in the Beaufort Delta is not only for our own energy and fuel needs but also to export to Asian markets. We're talking about using, potentially, an offshore loading facility or such or a port in which we would then be able to load shippers and tankers off to Asia because that's actually a shorter route than they are currently using at the moment to go from different parts of Canada out to the coasts through pipelines, et cetera. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I sent you all an email a few days ago in which we indicated that all of the fees for tourism operators will be waived for the 2020-2021 year, set to zero, actually. We had to change them within the act. They will be set to zero. They will continue to have the licence. If they do want to go out and operate, though, they do have to have their insurance. That is part of the thing. In the meantime, they can continue to keep their licence without having the insurance if they are not operating. I do understand that this might create a little bit of "Is someone going to get...

Thank you, Madam Chair. At this time, there are no additional resources in the budget. We just have the staff time and the MARS. I forget its acronym at this moment, but the MARS, and we can provide what the acronym is in a second here. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I think this was actually a conversation we also had as part of our priorities, was sort of almost a mentorship-type program and pairing up maybe people who are new to the business world with those who have great experience. I am open to that, and I do encourage my department to put those relationships in place. Maybe, at this time, it would be a little bit more informal than it would be a formalized program, but I am definitely open to having a conversation about formalizing the program.

I did just want to point out that the northern food fund is for commercial growers...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The total for the year is $1.2 million. This is our contribution. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We know that the town is doing some planning and looking at it. I believe that there are potentially some issues with the building, so I would need to look at that. I would imagine that would then, again, involve the other hat I wear in how we deal with that. I will take that away and commit to coming back to the Member with a bit more of an answer. Thank you, Madam Chair.