Wally Schumann

The Climate Change Strategic Framework will set the overall approach to addressing climate change. It will also guide the broader interests that go beyond just energy. It's going to do climate research, adaptation, resilience activities. The Energy Strategy, as I said, is the primary tool to look at greenhouse gas reductions and energy use in the NWT as set out by our draft that we will be tabling at some point.

Carbon pricing is something that we have been working on that needs to be implemented and encourages carbon conservation, so less use of fossil fuels and the substitutions of that...

As the Member has stated in this House, he named off all of the targets that we have, and he is correct. Industry has no target in there. We know that industry needs to do its part on this side of things. The Government of the Northwest Territories is going to support their efforts in an incentive program to help industry reduce their emissions around a carbon pricing that we will be bringing forward.

People have asked us how we get these targets, and what we have done, we went to a federal database on the national inventory report on greenhouse gas emissions, and this is where we got our...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That will be in the schedule for work on behalf of others. That will be the federal portion of the new CAP program. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The program review will look at the operations review, but we are building a terms of reference, and we will probably share that with committee once we have them done. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Not all of it, but some of it. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, I would gladly do that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am pleased to present the 2018-2019 Main Estimates for the Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment. Overall, the department’s estimates is proposing an increase of $1.97 million or 3.5 per cent over the 2017-2018 Main Estimates. They include approved adjustments of $1.2 million in total to fund the freight cost assistance program for fishers, the mining incentive program, contracting in relation to the development of the Mineral Resources Act, and funding for French language communications services.

Our proposed estimates also include $100,000 for the Northwest...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The answer is yes. We will hopefully have that finalized by the end of March. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. For 2017-2018, we anticipate spending $991,055 of that million dollars. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think it's a bit early to make a decision on that yet. We are working with the City of Yellowknife to determine the longterm model delivery of the visitors’ information centre.

To Mr. Vanthuyne, it's "DMO." DMO is the acronym that he was trying to figure out there. We need to pull all of these things together, and we will be working very closely with the city moving forward to see what supports are going to be needed. Thank you, Mr. Chair.