Robert C. McLeod

Thank you, Mr. Chair. If its Commissioner’s land within a municipal boundary, then it will be just a matter of them rezoning it for agricultural. Commissioner’s land outside of municipal boundaries we really haven’t been asked by anyone about accessing, but the opportunity is always there. I mean, if its Commissioner’s land and they go through the proper process, then the opportunity is there. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, this funding is provided to community governments when two factors are in place. One, the community government is unable to provide for unanticipated expenditures from within its budget without a significant negative impact on community government operations and, two, where the community government can demonstrate that it could not have fiscally planned for the unanticipated event. Thank you.

In response to the Member’s first question, this is a new line item that we’re proposing to put in this year’s budget. I suppose further down the road if we’re finding that this not a sufficient amount, then it’s something that we’d have to bring before this forum to seek an increase. At this moment we’re quite comfortable with the $650,000 and it’s something that we’d have to have a look at one or two years down the road.

As far as the Seniors Games, we do like to try and support seniors, but our main priority is with the youth. We’d like to work with seniors, but we’d look more at a regional...

Mr. Speaker, these are the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation programs so we stay away from using the LHOs. They have their own process that they have to deal with as far as rentals go. So as of right now there are, basically, a couple of options: they could speak to the district manager and then, as we’ve seen in many cases, a lot of them are speaking to the MLAs and that’s being relayed to the Minister. We do try and follow up with all the inquiries we get and see in each particular case what the situation was, what was the reason it was turned down. Until we get the new official...

Mr. Chair, we still continue to work closely with the communities. The people at the regional office are usually their first point of contact and they should be able to provide them with all the information they get. I know in some cases copies of particular reports were provided to the regional office, to the communities, but there’s still the first point of contact and they’re working closely with the communities. If they need more information as to what went on in the past, then they’d normally contact community operations in headquarters and they’d be able to provide them with that...

Well, I was going to add the two or three words: thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Member is correct; all that money goes towards supporting sport in the Northwest Territories.

The Sport and Recreation Council is set up. They receive the funding. Some of the other groups within their organizations, the Aboriginal Sport Circle, for example, would manage the North American Indigenous Games, and they might reach an agreement with Sport North to manage the Arctic Winter Games and Canada Games. So these groups are all working together quite well under the umbrella of the Sport and Recreation Council.

Mr. Speaker, at this particular moment there is no official appeals process in place. However, we are putting the work together to come up with an official appeals process and our intent is to have that in place by the next program application cycle. Thank you.

That is for the fire marshal’s office and other emergency management functions of this division. Thank you.