Bob McLeod

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We are not involved with the owners of the building, but we have been working with the Northern Frontier Visitors Centre and providing assistance in kind, and also helping them move through information gathering steps so that they could be in a position where they can evaluate the full extent of the problem and the cost required to address the situation. Ultimately, our government will try to support the Northern Frontier Visitors Association. Any steps or any next steps or further steps on funding decisions will have to be made on the basis of solid information. Thank...

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. There was internal reallocation of one position from MPR to MPI, and there’s one reduction in an economic development officer position. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The mineral advisory board provides high-level advice to myself and the chamber deals with mining on an issue-by-issue basis. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Canada has stated that it will engage with Indigenous groups on how to implement the principles of the declaration and that this work will include the provinces and territories. It is expected that the Government of the Northwest Territories and Canada, along with other jurisdictions, will engage in a clearer understanding of the meaning and implications of Canada’s recent full endorsement of United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and this will require further dollars as it stands now. However, Canada appears to be saying that they fully endorse the UN Declaration, but...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The money primarily went for contributions with universities for various research projects and also the budget has been moved into the contract section. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We provide $3.3 million to NWT Tourism, and we’re always looking at ways to improve our program. If building community infrastructure… Sort of if you build it they will come. Generally we take the approach of having tourism products developed. We have a large focus on Aboriginal tourism right now and certainly the community tourism infrastructure is fully subscribed as well. Whatever opportunities we have to increase our tourism products, we try to take advantage of that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We think the current model works quite well. The region knows best who to support. The regions support individuals to attend NFTI. As I said, there’s other models; we could centralize it in Hay River and have them provide all the funding. But we don’t see it as a problem for having to apply to a number of different pots. Actually, I think it works quite well. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It’s not under the contributions; it’s under O and M. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I was going to say it’s a good thing you didn’t have horns, but it might be taken the wrong way, so...

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Mr. Speaker, the Government of the Northwest Territories has made a commitment in its mandate to finalize and implement the Commercial Fishery Revitalization Strategy. I would like to share with Members of this Assembly, the work the Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment is doing to revitalize the Northwest Territories’ commercial fishery and broaden the NWT’s economic horizons. I look forward to sharing and discussing the revitalization strategy with Members in detail but would like, today, to provide a high-level outline of how our collaborative approach aims to jumpstart commercial...