Robert Bouchard

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. I’ll take that as a comment. Does the Minister have follow-up? Committee, we’re on Education, Culture and Employment, operations expenditures, Education, Culture and Employment, not previously authorized, $764,000.

Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In my Member’s statement today, I talked about the sixth season launch of Ice Pilots. I obviously have some questions for the Minister responsible, ITI. They handle the film industry in the Northwest Territories.

Can the Minister indicate to us what his department is currently doing to encourage more film production in the Northwest Territories? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Aumond. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 115-17(5), Northwest Territories Capital Estimates 2015-2016; and Tabled Document 155-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2014-2015, and would like to report progress. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Obviously, with this year’s firefighting season, I am definitely supporting the second part of this training of firefighters at the regional levels and including more and more of that for future years. We know over the next couple of years we are probably going to need more crews on the ground, and even the department mentioned it yesterday that we have these large craft that spread retardant but the actual fires are put out by the crews, by the staff, and I think that we need to make sure that we have a well-trained staff in the Northwest Territories. If we have an...

Next I have Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess I just have some concerns and I think most of them have to do with the accelerated activity in the Tuk to Inuvik highway. Oh, this is in operations. Sorry. I thought we were on capital. Sorry. Go ahead.