Bob McLeod

The NWT Farmers’ Association gets core funding, as well, and the Growing Forward Program that we have with the federal government, I think it’s budgeted for about $625,000. Thank you.

I’m not sure what number he’s talking about, but our share of the geomatics is $476,000. If he’s asking about the contracts, I’ll ask Ms. Magrum to respond to that detailed question.

I guess there are a number of different ways we could evaluate it. We could use the Program Review Office to look at how efficient or effective these changes were. We will monitor on an ongoing basis in conjunction with the Public Utilities Board and I think the main test will be that these rates are out there and that the lower costs are passed on to the consumers. We will be monitoring as a department and as a government.

We distribute it to all departments, which it does not include NTPC because there is no businesses that provide that service and it is not our intention to look at other forms of generating power, but the boards and agencies are covered under either health or education. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Not at this time.

We’re proposing $1 million for 2011-12.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Probably four years ago the federal government announced that they were investing approximately $39 million between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories to expand and improve on the broadband infrastructure. Nunavut got the majority of the money. I think they got $25 million and the Northwest Territories got $14 million. This is our contribution to assist with the O and M and administration with the Falcon Communications. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe that the page the Member is looking at, this is a shared service that we share with ENR. I think the majority, 75 percent of it is with regard to ENR. We also do some GIS work on behalf of the federal government and it’s basically a remote sensing program. Whether it is something that can be utilized for geophysical surveys and so on would be something that we would have to look into. I don’t know if the technology that we have that we operate would lend itself to doing that type of work, but if it doesn’t fit there we can probably look at in other federal...

Thank you for those comments. I think hydro is a very exciting area. As I indicated, the Premier will be briefing committee in the near future. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We are quite prepared to do that. Maybe we will get a higher mark next year with the CFIB. Thank you.