Robert C. McLeod

[Microphone turned off] …provide some of that information. I can tell you in the last couple of years we had 35 applicants in 2012-13 for a total of $105,850, in 2011-12 we had 34 athletes come out with $98,050. I think as we go into discussions during the business planning cycle, we could probably break them out there. I’m not sure about providing the names, we’d have to check on that, but we can provide whether they are competing internationally. We’ll try to provide as much information as we can so we can have a pretty detailed discussion. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. ENR has got some monitoring equipment, I believe, in Fort Smith and on the Mackenzie River. As far as the drinking water quality, the community operators take the samples and then they, in turn, provide those samples to Health and Social Services and they do the analysis.

As far as the website goes, we recognize there are some improvements that need to be made to the website, so we have a project team that has been put together to complete the work on the drinking water website. We are expecting a launch date of the new, updated site of June 2014. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. My understanding – and I might have Mark correct me if I’m wrong – is we will coordinate responses and we will be part of a working group with the other Ministers and the input. I think that’s as far as our responsibility goes. We’ll be doing some of the coordinating work and then all Ministers will have their input into the process. That’s as far as we’re at right now. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We appreciate the Member’s comments on some of the good work that this division does. I think we see the results. I am always proud of the fact that when we go to the Arctic Winter Games, in the last couple of games that I’ve been to, 27 of the 33 communities are represented by athletes. I think it speaks volumes to the fact that our folks are getting the programming out in the communities and they’re going from community to community and having all of these Get Active programs. We appreciate the comments.

You can’t say enough good things about the Youth Ambassador Program...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a list here with a lot of the positions. I don’t think it’s going to do any good if I just read it out. I’ll provide a copy of the list to Members. Thank you.

I do, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We will look at opportunities to try and get out into the regions as much as we can because it is quite important, but for those who come here, it is the community government that pays. I believe now their coming for training is eligible under the gas tax funding. So there are opportunities there too.

The Member makes a good point, though, and we’ll try and ensure we do what we can to try to make sure that we bring the training to the community where they will be needing it the most. We have some examples and the deputy minister just pointed out equipment operator training...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I take the Member’s point that when we go into business planning next year, we can look at how we…even some of the wording that we use in the operations of diamond resource management and all that, it is a discussion that we could have.

As far as the enforcement, we do plan on having a very aggressive enforcement, as I said in my opening comments, because we believe that we are going to be inheriting, well we got 940,000 square kilometres that we are going to be responsible for compared to I believe it was 2,400 before. In those 940,000 square kilometres there are a lot...

The Member is correct. Despite the fact that we did transfer $2.73 million along with the 19 positions, we’ve had $3.43 million in forced growth. Part of it was the money that went in, $500,000 for the youth resiliency and $150,000, so it turned out that we were still $665,000 more, an increase of $665,000 over last year.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The new Gas Tax Agreement is going to be for the next 10 years. I believe it’s indexed at 2 percent every year starting in 2014-15. Thank you.