Wally Schumann

Thank you, Mr. Chair. One of the things we have to take into consideration here, this is early days for this arm's-length board. They're just convening here. You know, just lately, we've just put these people in place. I'm sure as these things come up, they will come back to us and we will have a look at it and what role we can take and play to try to maybe correct some of these things going forward. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Could I get the Member to rephrase the question? I don't totally understand what he's asking.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, I will update the House a little bit on Almod. I had a conversation with him. Maybe some Members don't realize that, when the hurricane season hit the Caribbean, he has a number of stores down there that got either totally wiped out or severely damaged. A number of his staff had their homes totally destroyed. In one particular case, he had staff guarding his safe where the whole building was gone, even though their house was totally wiped out. He had significant challenges over the course of the hurricane season. I still believe they continue to do so. They...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, we can certainly look at doing an initiative like that. Like I said, we'll post some numbers together on this pilot project that we did in the Blackstone there, in the Fort Simpson Territorial Park, and get some of that information to committee as well, too. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Department of ITI is leading the working group on this thing. We will be having them monitor the evaluation that will be following every step of the way on this going forward so that we will be able to track all the progress on the program. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. When the Member goes there, to the grants contribution page, and sees what we contributed to, that amount also came out of page 221 in the business plan. It is the very first line, Aboriginal Mineral Development Program, and then some of it came from Other Contributions. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Member stated it was for marketing. This money is not for that. With the re-establishment of the Agricultural Products Marketing Council, which oversees the system in NWT and ensures that it’s arm's length and objective of the council, this money is for the operations of that council. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's the new Growing Forward equity that we're going to put forward for $188,000 and $145,000 for South Slave, the new fishery person that we're going to be moving there. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

This is ongoing. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, this last calendar year, we gave some money to help IRC with an initiative to study the feasibility of regional natural gas reserves in that region, along with the federal government. Canmore chipped in, we chipped in, and the IRCs participated in doing this. I believe that study is coming forward, is going to hopefully have a report to you by May, is my understanding on that.

When we come forward with our petroleum, oil, and gas strategy going forward, there's going to be a portion in there where we want to concentrate on how do we export using our resources...