Robert Bouchard

Thank you. I appreciate the Minister’s comments and I appreciate the Beaufort-Delta, I have lots of friends in the area, it will probably make it less now that I’m bringing this up. But the potential of the Beaufort-Delta, and the Minister said it himself, we don’t have the responsibility for offshore right now. So I don’t even know how we justify putting those nine positions into the Beaufort-Delta when we know that the activity currently, right now, is in the Norman Wells and in the Sahtu area. We have specialists in the Hay River office that are working on some of that as well. So those are...

I will call the committee to order. We will commence committee once we take a short break.

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Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Minister Ramsay. Next on my list I have Mr. Moses, followed by Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Minister Ramsay. Page 12-29, activity summary, economic diversification and business support, operations expenditure summary, $22.970 million. Mr. Bromley.

Go ahead, Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you. My question is about the evaluation making sense where you have an office that already has six people in it, and I appreciate the Minister keeping those positions in the Hay River area, but like I said, the government has indicated that they’re trying to keep synergies together and they’re basically creating a bigger office, even bigger than they currently have into a new area where we currently don’t have a lot of activity, and we have a lot of activity in the Sahtu and we have an office in the Hay River area. So I guess my concept is that the thing would have been to expand the...

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Vician.

Thank you, Mr. Blake. Deputy Minister Vician.

Thank you, Mr. Vician. Mr. Yakeleya.