Tom Beaulieu

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chair, I guess I was not thinking about the size of the lot, unfortunately, but I see that where the deputy minister is coming from. He is correct that those lots are substantially bigger than residential lots across the street.

My next question is on a different line, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I know that the department goes into the hinterland and taxes cabins, so I am wondering what the position of the department is in as far as taxing cabins that are used for harvesting. I am referring to, I think we could have a fairly broad definition of harvesting, but keep...

No. That's okay.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, along the same line, I would like to have seen 3 per cent as well, but I am satisfied with 5 per cent. My question is, although I don't want to go too far into the weeds, it is a question of what the possibility is for individuals who have incomes that are pension income, I forget what you call that type of income, but people who don't have a regular income where they are working and potential for them to have greater possibility of increasing their income. Fixed income. People with fixed incomes like pensioners and so on. Is it a possibility that they...

Mr. Chairman, I am using the term recreational. Mr. Schauerte used the term recreational. The Minister used the term recreational. I am trying to avoid the term recreational. I am asking if the government would be taxing somebody's trapping cabin. My understanding is that there are cabins on the Slave River near Fort Smith, near Fort Resolution, and cabins on the Taltson River, that are subject to taxing. Individuals are not seeing how that is possible. They went in the bush. They have been trapping there forever. They have replaced their cabins every once in a while, and they trap out of...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, there would be some need to develop capacity at the Indigenous government level. I would like to ask the Premier if the Premier has any, I guess, opinion on -- no, I shouldn't ask for an opinion, I suppose. If the government is thinking about when the negotiations on the self-government portion of the Akaitcho negotiations will start?

Thank you. So non-recreational cabins that are used for harvesting, like hunting, trapping, fishing, and even berry-picking, I am wondering if those cabins are taxed. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, committee would like to consider Tabled Document 63-18(3), Main Estimates 2018-2019, and continue with the Department of Executive and Indigenous Affairs, then moving on to the Department of Lands, and then to the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I seek unanimous consent to return to the regional operations section on page 352.

---Unanimous consent granted

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that the chair of the Committee of the Whole leave the chair and report progress. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. Chairman, I apologize. I had one question on the previous section.