Caroline Cochrane

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We did public service announcements through the television. We do radio announcements as well. I am not sure if the Member is looking for us to knock on doors. Currently, we do not do that. If the Member is looking at providing feedback from people into our development of the emergency plan, we could probably find some way to implement feedback from the residents on Ingraham Trail when we are developing the emergency plan for Yellowknife. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, the reduction of $115,000 is a reduction from the public service capacity initiative, but we are now getting external money from Indigenous and Northern Affairs of Canada arguing as capacity building funding that we are using for that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

As part of doing this survey we have committed that we would provide the findings of this survey to all municipal governments and all Aboriginal governments. They will have a What We Heard report identifying exactly what was said within their own communities.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The works position actually did assume the capital planner position in that region. When we look at restructuring we can take another look at them and see if the placements are in the right places; however, recognizing that not all regions did have this position before. Many regions went without, and that is not only large communities. The two positions not only have to serve the six communities in the Sahtu, they have to serve all of the Northwest Territories. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It is within our mandate and it is part of the Sutcliffe Report that, actually, we are to provide a physical activity strategy. We are meeting with the five sports and recreation organizations in April. At that point, we are going to be looking at developing a territory-wide physical activity strategy to address the issues that the Member has brought up. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So we have a manager of policy, we have a senior policy adviser, we have a junior policy adviser, and we have a legislative adviser position. We also have been provided access to Justice if we need it at any time, as well. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just in consultation, we have figured out that we have done recently an evaluation of the recreational funding. We have done reviews in the youth areas, and we will be willing to do a review of the recreational funding to the municipalities, so we will actually work with that with the community governments to get their input on that as well. Not to say that I'm going to give an increase. I mean we will take their input. For me, it is more about finding out, are the services and the programs still effective and still efficient because if we have not reviewed them in years...

In April 2015, the federal government established a National Disaster Mitigation Program with small communities; communities can apply to deal with the effects of climate change or other natural disasters. In the fall of 2016, the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs, actually on behalf of Aklavik, we submitted a funding request for $255,000 to create a mitigation plan that will identify the measures designed to reduce or eliminate the impact of shoreline erosion. This funding is expected to be confirmed in the next couple of weeks, and once the approval is in, we will start work...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have some funding through our gas tax agreement that will provide for travel. The agreement does not provide for salaries, for wages actually, so therefore we'll be using the money that we are allocated for travel to provide the support for face-to-face as well. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We are going to the Indigenous Games. We are just not taking the Youth Ambassador Program there. Different programs will be utilized for that event. Thank you, Mr. Chair.