Wally Schumann

Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following two documents entitled "Annual Report Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act Department of Infrastructure 2017;" and "Follow-up Letter to Oral Question 117-18(3): Immigration Recruitment." Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

I don't think the knowledge economy is about rewarding people. The knowledge economy is about bringing new methodologies to the table, new ideas, how to do business better, how to make things better for climate change adaptation. How do we increase the fibre connectivity of the North to Southerners, satellite facilities, these sorts of things. I don't think there's a reward base. Private business rewards itself with innovation that makes it more cost effective. Innovation brings more investment dollars from outside the country. That's the type of rewards that private businesses bring. It's not...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We will provide that to the Member. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe he is talking about the line item on page 216 for commercial fisheries, and that is a support program that we have there for freight and production costs of fishing in the Northwest Territories. I know our department has been up to the Member's region and had a workshop there to see who was interested in getting into the commercial fishery in that region. We had a number of stakeholders participate in that.

I have recently had a chat with the chief of Tsiigehtchic, actually, around the discussion of how we can continue to promote that. We will continue to work...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I've stated in the House before, this was a part of our normal operations and our seasonal operations and the amount of money that was allocated to it. I made a commitment in the House when our parks went out to tender that we would have an option on there to have the parks operators give us a price for an additional timeline and we would take that as a consideration if we'd be able to extend the hours of operators and the length of time that they would be open. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We went out and did our public engagement in a number of communities across the Northwest Territories. We are going to be pulling together a What We Heard report. Hopefully, that is going to be done in the very near future, and we will be able to table that probably in the up-and-coming session or post it online before the next session starts. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's specifically for ITI, but it's for all regions in the Northwest Territories. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

That is correct. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, a comment on the Mineral Resource Act royalty part of it. There were two discussions in our public engagement, and, once we got to the intergovernmental council, that is where the decision was made to put that on hold on the royalties.

As far as the Oil and Petroleum Resource Act going forward and the Oil and Gas Operations Act, we will have our public engagement sessions as well. The demand we will be meeting is probably exactly the same thing with the intergovernmental council, having those discussions with them. I couldn't comment at this point if the...

Yes, that is correct. Thank you, Mr. Chair.