Bob McLeod

That’s correct, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’d like to ask Michelle Beard to respond to that.

Mr. Chairman, I believe that we communicated that to him, but Mr. Pollard, being an outstanding former Member of this Assembly, I am sure he understood how the consensus government works. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We committed to provide information so perhaps it will become clearer when the information is provided. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. With regard to the $300,000 for agriculture development infrastructure, $250,000 was transferred from contract services originally and $50,000 is the increase for 2011-12. On the promote and support for commercial harvest processing, $450,000 is transferred from contracting services and $100,000 is the increase for 2011-12. Thank you, Mr Chair.

Yes, I would, Mr. Chair.

We did have the environmental assessment report sent back by the Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs and we are doing an assessment of that. My understanding is that the Premier will be briefing SCEDI, I believe, or SCOPP within the next couple days or in March, I think it’s March 2nd there will be a briefing on the Taltson. So I think at that time you’ll get the full details of what is being proposed. The corporation is working on that and the Premier will be updating committee on that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I believe there are two seasonal workers who work there.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was going to say I will authorize a day off for them, but my understanding is that they are entitled to civic leave, all the recognition of Aboriginal days, all days through the Sahtu land claims are recognized as civic, but I will confirm that for the Member.

Mr. Chairman, through the tools that we have which are primarily the Business Development Investment Corporation and the Department of ITI and we are still waiting to see whether the Opportunities Fund will be a tool that we can use. We work very closely with the development corporations to develop capacity. We don’t give them counselling on specific projects or specific bids, but where they come to us for capital or for loans and we counsel them on whether we think it is a viable or feasible investment. We continue to work with them on an ongoing basis. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.