Bob Bromley

Weledeh

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Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Minister McLeod.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Committee agrees. Page 12-14, information time, Industry, Tourism and Investment, corporate management, active positions.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

One of the aspects of this, of course, is it’s an opportunity that appears where there are fires. So there can be different communities involved from time to time and my understanding is that the harvest opportunities is really commercial only the first year after a fire. So I’m wondering what the department is doing to grapple with that. There are some residents who are experts in this area. I wonder if they’ve been approached or are planning to be approached for assisting in planning on how to manage this opportunity/ Thank you.

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As I outlined in my Member’s statement, this is quite a valuable industry that’s out there waiting for some support. There is a small core of harvesters that I’m sure poked the government to get something going earlier but they are still awaiting support. I will ask this Minister again if he will commit to working with them to develop those necessary licences and whatever regulatory supports are needed to ensure that the industry benefits our residents rather than walk straight across the border as has happened again this past summer. Thank you.

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Is there anything impeding progress right now or is it that things are going slowly or going well? Any role that the Weledeh MLA should be playing here? Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

I appreciate those remarks. Again, I think there probably are some important opportunities for communities here. Is there a plan to involve them or the Association of Municipalities or something like this in a meaningful way at some point soon in the planning? Again, because I think these are important opportunities that the communities should be brought into as soon as possible just to help build the capacity there in the uptake. Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister McLeod.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Page 12-11, Industry, Tourism and Investment, department summary, information item, active positions, Business Development Investment Corporation. Questions?

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Thank you, committee. Page 12-29, activity summary, Industry, Tourism and Investment, economic diversification and business support, operations expenditure summary. Mr. Yakeleya.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to follow up on my Member’s statement and direct my questions to the Minister of ITI. I noticed that the 2009 edition of the NWT Economic Review contains a lot of statistics about our major resource sectors but there’s no information on agriculture, forestry, or cultural industries outside of our arts and crafts. As I said the other day, our statistics people tell us that if we don’t measure it, we don’t care about it. That may be extreme, but struggling local mushroom harvesters are working hard to get that industry going and we need to take their needs into...