David Krutko

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again I’d like to ask for a breakdown with regard to the affirmative action candidates, management positions, and disability and women in the different positions.

Agreed?

So if you can turn back to page 3-7, Human Resources, department summary, operations expenditure summary, $42.421 million. Agreed? Mr. Ramsay.

Again, I mean, if we’re spending money as a government and we’re collecting data, I think that data should be the privy of the public. I think that if we’re doing anything that there has to be a way that those public funds are being utilized, but more importantly, that the public can actually see how we’re spending those dollars. I know that you go to different conferences and whatnot and that you see all these different presenters and presentations on geotechnical information in regard to mostly mining potential, but I think we also have to look at it in the confines of oil and gas. I would...

I noticed in the document they talk about a draft Hydro Strategy. When are we going to be publishing this strategy and identifying the information that’s been compiled so far today or is it going to be over a couple of years?

Total grants and contributions, $13.574 million.

Page 3-17, activity summary, human resource strategy and policy, operations expenditure summary, $6.830 million. Agreed?

Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With regard to the Sport Hunt Outfitter Marketing Support Program, we had an interesting meeting a while back with EDI. We met with a bunch of different outfitters and the department and it seemed like some people were for it and some people said they can’t access the program. I’m just wondering how many people did access the program and have it worked out the situation where people who were present said they were having challenges accessing the program because either their business model didn’t fit with regard to either converting to a different type of activity, like...

Mr. McLeod, you have the floor for opening comments.