Robert C. McLeod

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I respect the Member's concern. That detail of information, offhand, we just do not have. We can confirm the numbers as well as some of the functions that they provide. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mr. Speaker, our commitment is to work with the Government of Nunavut on the questions of shared caribou concern. I have already had a preliminary discussion with my counterpart in Nunavut and we will continue to relay our concerns to the Government of Nunavut and work with them in trying to find a balanced approach.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I appreciate the Member's encouragement to the department to try to go out and get as much money as we can. I can tell the Member, though, and I think we get to it later on in the budget document that there is a lot of money that comes into the Northwest Territories through research projects, and we continue to try and explore every opportunity to have money come into the Northwest Territories to do research on climate change and mitigation. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, gladly, Mr. Chair, thank you. We had a plan. Because of attrition we have eliminated four positions, and that gives us an opportunity to work on a new plan, recognizing some of the workload that ENR is going to be facing. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, we are. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We haven’t determined that yet, but one other thing I could share with Members or share with this House is, in our discussions with Canada, they recognize our high cost of providing services up here and they have a green energy fund, I believe it is, and there are some opportunities for us to apply for money through that fund to help mitigate our emissions. Again, to our advantage is that they know about the high cost of living up here, the 22 or 23 communities on these. We’ve made that case. I believe that we’re working with Canada to try and access some of that green...

I’ll defer to Dr. Kelly.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, while we wouldn't necessarily have to come back with a supplementary, we would just come back with an information item as to which positions may have changed. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I think there was some information of the activity description in the front there as to where it might go. I take the Member’s point though about – I think he wants to know exactly where all the money is going and, I would have to go back and see because I thought during our business planning process, we gave a better indication of where it was broken down as to where the money was going to go and then we bring it forward to a business plan and we have the one figure here for $3,600,030. I’ll go back and look at the business plans and if there’s an opportunity...

We have been having those discussions as an item. As I mentioned earlier, the federal government, we made them well aware of the actual effects of their carbon pricing and the effects it’s going to have on the Northwest Territories, so we will continue to have those discussions. We will continue to make our case. I have had assurance from the Minister of Environment Canada that they will recognize the unique situation of the North. Whatever that entails remains to be seen and I guess that’s part of the wider discussion that we plan on going with them.