Daryl Dolynny

So this money is given to the NWT geoscience office for redistribution. Does the department have any performance measures, evaluation or audit tools in connection with this money?

Thank you, committee. Sergeant-at-Arms, will you please escort the witnesses into the House, please and thank you.

Minister Miltenberger, if you’d like to introduce your witnesses to the House, please.

I tend to have to disagree a little bit here with the Minister. If we wanted to work more expeditiously, these type of questions, if you go back to Hansard, these have been asked over two years ago, and we’re only seeing this now, almost year three into our term here. I agree, the website that was designed for potential film industry executives to use is a good tool, but three years later we’re only now starting to think about investing into a rebate program.

I’m a bit disappointed only because the film industry is very nomadic and if you don’t do things to react more intensively, you notice...

Okay, so I’ll ask that question on another day then. What role does the geoscience office contribute within the grants and contributions? Do they perform any type of role in any type of incentive programs? Thank you.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Minister Miltenberger, do you have witnesses you’d like to bring into the House?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. On page 12-32 we have the Film Industry Pilot Project. I know other Members have spoken to it. I want to go to your opening comments and your statement where you talk about $100,000 for a film industry pilot project in response to increased interest in the NWT filming location. This project will measure the impacts of a rebate program to the film industry. Yet, in here it shows $50,000. Is there another allocation of money besides this entry?

I would assume that would be under the Department of Finance. Could I get clarity?

Thank you, Minister Ramsay, for those kind words. Ms. Magrum, enjoy your retirement.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just as more of a clarification, this is the one time of year where I sometimes get an update on some of these great programs. One of them here on this activity page, the Take a Kid Trapping, just a question is how many kids are involved in this program and if they could let me know of how many Aboriginal children versus non-Aboriginal kids.

Do we have any preliminary numbers, given what we know thus far when production will commence, as to what type of money we would be looking potentially for the fiscal year? Thank you.