Bob McLeod

I thank the Member for his comments. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. All of these GSOs, as I understand it, are indeterminate positions, so those positions will continue. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess to refresh the Member's memory I can provide him with a copy of the letter dated January 17, 2018, or I can table the letter in this House, or we can just give him a copy. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We see MACA as providing community services and working with communities, and we feel that the NGO Stabilization Fund is best situated at MACA. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. When we do a review of the pilot project we now have with Service Canada and, certainly, depending on the results, it would certainly depend on whether the federal government is prepared to expand the service. In my view, this pilot project certainly helps make those people that are entitled to programs and services. It helps them to make sure they can access everything they're entitled to. So that's certainly been a benefit; but we will be undertaking this review and we would certainly look at that consideration with the federal government, depending on the results...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The only reference to a five-year review is the review of the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act. When the devolution agreement was enacted, the federal government insisted that they would continue to be responsible for the MVRMA. With the new government, we made representation that there was no need to wait five years. Now, five years will be up in 2019. We had also made representation to the federal government that they should transfer the MVRMA and we would make changes. The federal government has indicated that they want to do changes before, and we still have...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As part of the business planning process, it is our intention to move the responsibility for providing services to the PUB to the Department of Infrastructure, which has the lead on energy manners, and I expect that, once it is housed there, whatever direction to the PUB will emanate from that department. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess we don't see any difference. We are moving those functions to those departments that have the expertise to deal with those programs. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We are certainly very pleased with the level of services that our government services officers currently provide. As the Member knows, one of the most important functions that the GSOs provide is the ability to speak the Indigenous languages of the community. Communications is an essential service when explaining the Government of the Northwest Territories' programs and services. Certainly, our commitment has been to increase the amount of GSOs until we fill all of the small communities with GSOs. I think we are very close to fulfilling that requirement. Certainly, we...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Through the court process, the judge, when it came to Aboriginal rights for hunting, which for the Metis North Slave Alliance, which to my mind there was never any doubt or question, the judge also directed that there be a strength of claim review with regards to what the North Slave Metis Alliance were requesting. Both the Government of Canada and our government completed strengths of claims. The North Slave Metis Alliance and the NWT Metis Nation had an open house, which they reached and signed an agreement that would describe how they would go forward. The MSR also...