David Krutko

[Microphone turned off.] …as amended.

Question is being called.

---Carried

Mr. Menicoche.

Mr. Menicoche.

To the bill as a whole.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I’d like to ask the Minister in regard to whatever his findings are from his department, if he can keep myself and the community of Aklavik involved so we can take it to the next step of implementing some of these ideas. It’s a great report. It’s 166 pages long and it would be a waste if this report isn’t being used and isn’t implemented. So I’d like to request the Minister to keep me involved when implementing the report.

The motion is in order. To the motion.

Mr. Menicoche.

Bill as a whole?

Sergeant-at-Arms, can you escort the witnesses in?

Mr. Minister, for the record, could you introduce your witnesses?

Mr. Speaker, I’d like to thank the Minister for that, because in the report it clearly identifies through the finding of the research some of the priority items include a sawmill in the community of Aklavik, the fur garment factory that was there in the past -- there’s still effort to do that -- the whole area around tourism. I think it’s those types of initiatives that we, as government, can provide seed money to assist those communities to get some of these projects off the ground to generate those types of incomes.

So I’d just like to ask the Minister if he’s had an opportunity to get his...