Caroline Cochrane

The community planner position was actually responsible for assisting in the development of the community plans, but, with the New Deal, actually we have changed it so that communities actually develop their own plans now and we allow them to hire their own planners within the new funding arrangement that we have. Then, at headquarters, we still have two positions. We have a planner and a technician. Like I say, these two positions that are currently here will take over the overlap, and it is not as indepth anymore. Now that we are not doing actual community plans and we are allowing the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The operation of the arena if a community sees fit, that that is what they decide to operate is found on page 330, and it is under grants, contributions and transfers, the $81,081,000. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So for the program itself small communities are considered a population under 100,000 people. So currently MACA is not considering population in our figures. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The two recommendations that at this point the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs are not implementing are the second recommendation. The report recommended that the department include all of its programs in the Sport, Recreation and Physical Activity Policy, including youth and volunteers. The second recommendation that we, to date, have not implemented is recommendation number 15. The report recommended that the department establish a separate lottery commission to oversee the Western Canada Lottery program. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes. So it will be the six tax-based communities. I'm going to run them off: Yellowknife, Hay River, Fort Simpson, Fort Smith, Norman Wells, and Inuvik. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It can be found on page 343, work performed on behalf of others. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I will let the deputy minister answer that; she knows the timeline in place.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, it is found in the recreation section of the binder. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. As far as I am aware of, there are no sports organizations that are accepting this funding, but we will have to check on that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

The filling of the positions actually is done dependent on the situation. It can be an open competition. It can be a transfer assignment. It could be filling a spot with an affected employee. Yes, the affirmative action does apply on unfunded positions the same as it would on any other position.