Wendy Bisaro

Thanks, Ms. Gareau. No, I think if it’s the same information that we got during business plans, I have it already. So if it’s changed, then, yes, I’d like it. Thank you.

Thanks to the Minister. I didn’t hear the answer to the question there. I’d like to know if the GNWT has a policy or has any kind of an idea in their mind... Does GNWT, as a government or as a Cabinet, have a percentage of land that they intend to keep open and accessible for economic development? Thank you.

Okay, I need to know where the O and M expenses are in here and I have no idea. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As you’ve already heard, today is the beginning of Education Week so I’m going to tell an education story. For two years in a row now I’ve been privileged to be a judge at the Yellowknife Regional Learning Fair. Two Fridays ago I was at Mildred Hall School hard at work doing just that. The Yellowknife Regional Learning Fair was a gathering of students ranging from grade 4 to grade 8. Each of the students at the regional fair was a winner in their own right from the learning fair competition held at their own school, and now they were competing for the regional title in...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a couple of questions here. First of all, I mentioned last year that we seem to have an awful lot of youth contributions. I have suggested that the department needed to look at them and see whether or not they can be combined. I have great difficulty in looking at these and seeing how some of them are different from others. The youth centre is one, that is pretty self-explanatory, but I fail to see the difference between the youth contributions and the youth corps.

The other thing that concerns me is we also have contributions to youth corps and youth...

Thanks, Mr. Aumond. I am not pointing fingers here at all. I am trying to understand the situation, please. I am not meaning to be offensive, if I am. I guess I would like to know what steps need to be followed. What process does exist that needs to be followed? If, for instance, there were to be a sale within the block land transfer for the City of Yellowknife and the City was not agreeable, would the community that “has the block land transfer” have veto power? Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, thanks to the deputy minister for that. My other question has to do with a newspaper article that I saw a little while ago. It had to do with the selling of a parcel of land to the Norman Wells Land Corporation. I’m curious as to the process. My understanding is that at least some of this land, if not all of it, was within the block land transfer for the Town of Norman Wells. I was curious as to how the government could basically sell land out from underneath the nose of the Town, so to speak. Could I get an explanation as to what kind of a process applies, if it is conceivable...

That’s all I have. Mr. Aumond answered my next question.

All those are good things. I don’t need a list of the activities that are funded. I’m just struggling to understand how a regional activity has a territorial focus, but that’s a comment. I don’t need an answer.

So I guess the next question would be if there are applications and the money at that $40,000 cap each is going to be less than the $200,000, would the department consider expending the remaining money in the $200,000 fund to a cap of actual? If people are applying for more money than the $40,000 that they’re going to get back, would we consider expending the full amount of the $200,000 so that they at least get more of their actual expenses?