David Krutko

Also the government, I know in the past they signed a political accord or protocol agreements between ourselves and Aboriginal governments to sort of form a working relationship. Out of those discussions came, in the case of the Gwich’in, the MOU. I know the Sahtu has the same thing. I’m wondering if there are protocol agreements with the different Aboriginal groups in their regions on how we have discussions with them. Is that over and above this, or is that these dollars we’re talking about used for that type of purpose?

With that, I’d like to thank the Premier and his witnesses. Sergeant-at-Arms, escort the witnesses out.

What is the wish of committee? Mr. Ramsay.

We’re on page 5-21, activity summary, budget, treasury and debt management, operations expenditure summary, $9.850 million.

Thank you. Again, I’d like to ask the Minister in regard to the sport organizations, regardless if it’s Sports North or Soccer NWT, but maybe you can pass on that if they are putting on different types of coaching clinics and tryouts, that they do try to regionalize those activities so that we can get as many athletes from all the regions in the Northwest Territories to take part, and at a reduced cost, rather than having the communities come to a larger centre. So I’d like to ask the Minister if he can relay that on to the different sporting organizations as Minister.

I would like to know what the number is under contract services.

We are moving on to page 5-9, information item, revenue summary. Mr. Bromley.

Ms. Melhorn.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There seems to be a lot of duplication between the Executive’s budget and this budget with regard to funding sources. In the Executive budget there were funds allocated to the northern leaders meetings and now here we see the line item here. Also with regard to questions we were asking about that I’m wondering what exactly is the overlap and if the devolution portfolio falls under Executive and the land claims portfolio falls under Aboriginal Affairs, do you have your own legal counsel for when you meet on the basis of both with different legal obligations? One...

With that, we can turn back to the department summary on page 4-7, Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, department summary, operations expenditure summary, $7.619 million.

Page 5-21, activity summary, budget, treasury and debt management, operations expenditure summary, Mr. Jacobson.