Bob Bromley

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole back to together. We have before us the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Bohnet. Anything further, Mr. Krutko? Thank you. Again, committee, we’re on page 13-14, Environment and Natural Resources. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. That’s coming up very shortly on the next page, I believe. So let’s just conclude this page 13-23, Environment and Natural Resources, information item, forest management, active positions. Agreed?

Thank you, committee. I will ask you to turn back to page 13-7, the summary, Environment and Natural Resources, department summary, operations and expenditures summary, $67.493 million. Agreed?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe we’re on 6-35. I just wondered with the Get Active NWT $100,000, that seems to be a new program. Is this federal dollars?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just a couple of quick questions. The Minister mentioned stabilization funds. I wonder if he could tell me how much is in that stabilization fund budget for 2011-12. Thank you.

It sounds like there is some tragic circumstances here, but it doesn’t detract from the lack of succession planning, which is obviously gone here. I mean, we have to create an emergency before we work and plan in these areas, and I think this is the sort of thing we are starting to see in more places as we go through this budget, so I am glad it is happening now, but I hope in other areas, other divisions and departments, we don’t have to wait for that situation to develop.

I wanted to ask one other question. The new amended Commissioner’s Land Act has just come into force on February 14th with...

I’m afraid I swallowed that reassurance line for a couple of years on this and I wish I could be with the Minister on this, but it ain’t happening out there. I’m not saying that there aren’t some improvements in some areas, and perhaps in some communities there have been vast improvements. The situation is not like that with the communities that I work with and others that I know about. We’re not just talking a minor adjustment or a little adjustment here. I’m not sure what stabilization funds. I’d like to know how much we’re talking about in stabilization funds. We’re talking about 100...

Again, I appreciate Mr. Aumond’s remarks. I believe I actually am registered for that and I believe it is in concert with a non-government organization and so on, but a very progressive piece of work there.

I guess, I appreciate that approach, but I think that what we want to do at the same time given our, perhaps, privileged understanding of the situation, what is coming down the pipes, so to speak, is to explicitly make those connections, connect the dots here between issues. So I am glad it is in there almost inadvertently but necessarily, but I think that if we can start to recognize why...

That’s all I had, Mr. Chair. It sounds like those dollars are being well spent. Thank you.