Michael McLeod

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, Mr. Speaker, there is an application before us and has been before us for awhile now by the city for some land in the Kam Lake area that has gone through the Interim Measures Agreement process. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, the implementation plan has been drafted. I did table it in the House. Maybe the Member could take the time to refer to that document. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, as I indicated in my first answer, the committee is going to be formulated over this next while. The plans are to have it operational by April of this year. The mandate and business plans are all yet to be developed. The intention of creating this new council was to have the amalgamation of all our sports priorities under one umbrella to create a forum where all communities would have a voice…

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…and be able to reduce some of the overlap in terms of providing programs and services and also have the ability to coordinate some of our services and, at the same time, reduce...

Mr. Speaker, I am not aware, at this point, if we have developed the process areas or time frames where we would perform an evaluation. We certainly could work on that and develop and build it into our business plan as we work them out in the next while. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, our plans for this new sports council coming into operation is April of 2005. We want to have one year or some time for transition to allow for Members to develop some new business plans and budgets and plan for the integration of some of the programs and services. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, we don’t have an absolute process. We don’t have an agreement signed yet as to how all of this is going to unfold. I have asked both the city and the Akaitcho to try to resolve it in one year. We are trying to set a deadline of one year so that we can have a clear process that everybody will be able to understand and follow. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, we have a number of different processes across the NWT for providing additional land to the towns and cities. In the case of Yellowknife, we have not been aware that there has been an application filed for additional land outside of the town boundaries. We have been discussing the issue of some lands reverted back from the mines. We have included the Akaitcho Territory First Nations and the city. We have been having a number of meetings to come to some kind of a long-term plan of how we would arrange for land and also for the First Nations to bring their interests forward and...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in the Yellowknife area, we, as a department, have to follow a process that is in place, set up, and agreed upon by the Akaitcho Territory and this government through Aboriginal Affairs that spells out an interim measures agreement that we, as MACA, have to follow. In this case, we have had discussions with the Akaitcho First Nations and the city, and we have tentatively agreed that we would work towards developing a process where we wouldn’t run into a roadblock where the city is interested in some lands and the First Nations are also interested, or any...

Madam Chair, the explosion detective systems and the whole bag of systems is going to be located at Yellowknife. That decision was made by the federal government and the intention is to target transfer traffic that is going from other northern airports, such as Inuvik, Norman Wells, and Rankin Inlet and other northern locations, that is passing through and bound for southern destinations. The Member is asking for details of the assessments made by the federal government. I don’t have that at my disposal, Madam Chair, and I don’t know if I would be able to provide it. Thank you.

Madam Chair, that’s a question that the conditions and process for that are a little different. Through the requirements for increased traffic volume in a lot of different airports, we’ve already done a number of projects through this program called the Airport Capital Assistance Program. We’ve dealt with a number of the issues relating to increased traffic volumes. We’ve invested some money in the Inuvik Airport and also done some work targeting Norman Wells. We’ve also accessed several projects at the Yellowknife Airport over the years. However, in this case we haven’t been able to apply...