Caroline Cochrane

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The multi-sport games, actually, we still have it in our mains, and the budget is $500,000 that we have in our mains, separate from the lottery funding.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. To date, yes, all of the budget allocations should be out. If the Member would like, we can bring back confirmation of that if the Member wishes. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. At this point, I'm not willing to commit to that. It would take a lot of thought. At this point, we wouldn't be looking at LGANT to do, for example, city council training, those kinds of things. Also within our 18th Legislature, we have a mandate that talks about the online support services. So in order to meet our mandate we want to make sure that we do it appropriately and we want to make sure the community governments have the services they want and actually have a say if we were going to turn that programming over. At this point, the community governments have had...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, the positions actually do provide advice and support to the Minister. However, we still have two positions in headquarters -- like I said, the planner and the technician -- who will be able to provide the support. There should be no delays to the communities actually doing their community plans because of these reductions. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The New Deal came out in 2007, and that was when the Government of the Northwest Territories stopped telling communities what to do with their funds and actually started listening to the communities and allowing communities to decide their own.

In 2014, though, we did do another funding review. At that time, when we looked at the operating and maintenance, we did take into consideration all of their core infrastructure needs, and an arena is a core infrastructure. It is in the category of core infrastructures. At that point, we realized that, I can't remember the exact...

No, Mr. Chair, as long as they are a municipal community there is no minimum. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Presently, the funding for lottery staff come from the lottery dollars. The department, though, is going to work with the Department of Finance to describe in our main estimate process beginning in 2018-19. The funding of these positions will need to align with the legislation which will be developed in 2017-18 with an intended implementation of April 1, 2018, and the management of the lottery revolving fund. The details around the legislation and the management of the revolving fund have not been developed at this time.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, if you look at page 326 you'll see that the total for 911 implementation is $616,000. That is broken down with the $132,000 for a 911 emergency coordinator; the $365,000, as the Member stated, is implementing furniture, office space, et cetera; and then the last $119,000 is for the contract services for the implementation of 911. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to be able to say that they just gave us the money and said, do what you want, but the reality is they do have pretty firm guidelines on it. We are working closely with the Aboriginal governments to develop an online training program relevant to Aboriginal governance specifically. So it's a partnership between the Aboriginal governments, the Government of the Northwest Territories, and the federal government. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. When the department was looking at some restructuring to see if there were ways that we could be more efficient with our resources, we decided that the two positions could be terminated -- they are through headquarters -- and that we would have enough staffing to actually do the extra work that was required. Thank you, Mr. Chair.