Kevin O'Reilly

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I do appreciate the commitment from the Minister to do that, and I am hoping it can be done in a timely fashion; probably, I do not know, sometime before June would be great. Do you think he can do that? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Just to be clear, was that funding actually reallocated or was it deleted from the budget? I understood from last year that these were deletions that were being made in light of the Cabinet's fiscal strategy. Can we get some clarification on that, please? Thank you.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Good news. I thank the Minister for that. I have no further questions, thanks.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I was just reflecting on the Minister of Finance's response to my earlier questions around the capacity of the ENR. Just so we're clear, I guess, what I'm looking for is I want to know what kind of capacity there is within ENR with regard to climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, how many staff they've got, how they collaborate with Public Works and Services and Finance. It sort of sounded to me like Finance is going to take over the lead on carbon pricing and that's fine. They are bean counters, but I'm interested in making sure that the people that know something about...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I’m looking at page 63, and there’s a reduction in conservation planning from 2016-17 to 2017-18. It’s around $105,000. Can the Minister explain the reduction here? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I look forward to that bedtime reading. I don't know if anybody can answer this question or not, but I will try it. What kind of coordination, collaboration is there between ENR and Public Works and Services and, I guess, maybe Finance  the same Minister  with regard to carbon pricing? I think we heard maybe today at noon that there is some kind of a working group or something, but can anybody tell me who is on the working group, what they do and so on? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. I am glad to get that commitment from the Minister. Sorry, I mixed up my analogies a little bit earlier. I should have talked about trucks before the caribou. Clearly, the routing for the Slave Geological Province road was chosen by our government without any regard for caribou, as stated by the Minister of Transportation at least a couple of times in the House. How will Cabinet decide whether such a road can be safely built without causing irreparable harm to the Bathurst caribou herd, or has that decision already been made? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. On page 70, the words "climate change" appear, so I am just wondering if the Minister or his staff can just talk a little bit about what sort of capacity they have within the department with regard to climate change? How many staff are working on it? What do they generally do, and so on? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks to the Minister for his response. We know that the proposed Grays Bay port and road project, which is on the Nunavut side of the boundary, includes an all-weather road that passes through the calving and post-calving grounds of the Bathurst caribou herd. Is it still the position of our government to oppose development in the calving grounds of caribou herds and will he commit to communicate that position to the Government of Nunavut?

Okay, thanks, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the explanation. I think there was one item from last year's budget. Sorry, I am going to spring this on my colleague from the Sahtu, but there were plans to do away with the check station at mile 222 on the Canol Road in the Mackenzie Mountains, and I think the department found ways to continue to do that work internally. Presumably, that station was still there this past summer, and we are looking at continuing that facility in 201718? Thanks, Mr. Chair.