Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we are going out for an RFP and it may be fire season in our part of the world, but in other parts of the world, their fire seasons will differ than ours. The interest that we have been receiving is from European and South American countries, so we will have an RFP out and, as I said before, if we can get them, we'll have them sold by the end of the 2017-2018 fiscal year. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, We are here today to review Bill 15: An Act to Amend the Tobacco Tax Act.

Legislation is required to amend the Tobacco Tax Act to allow changes to the tobacco tax collection system, to establish a tax duty stamp to be placed on tobacco products sold in the NWT, and to eliminate the commission paid to tobacco tax collectors. The establishment of a tobacco tax duty stamp will require that all tobacco products sold in the NWT be marked, stamped, sealed or labeled with a jurisdictional tax stamp. The introduction of a jurisdictional tobacco stamp will mitigate risks...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, there are four aircraft. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, this is work that is being done now, and looking into the future, we would have to see a business case or see what we can do, going forward, looking for another courthouse building in Yellowknife, and then that challenge of our fiscal capacity, as well. There is some work that we need to do going forward, because the Member pointed out the fact that we have $795,000 identified in this particular infrastructure budget for that. There is some work to do, going forward. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I have with me to my right Mr. David Stewart, who is the deputy minister of the Department of Finance. To my left, I have Mr. Sandy Kalgutkar, deputy secretary to the Financial Management Board. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, it is. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair I am here to present Supplementary Estimates, (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2017-2018. This document provides for an increase of $10.6 million to the operations budget.

Major items in these supplementary estimates include:

$4.4 million for the New Canada-NWT Agreement for French and Aboriginal Languages. These costs are fully offset by revenues from the Government of Canada.

$1.4 million for the Great Slave Lake Commercial Fishery Revitalization initiative.

$1.2 million for the runway surface repairs at the Inuvik airport. An offsetting amount was lapsed in...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, my understanding is they are two separate projects. The second one, the contract is in place and the estimated completion is in June 2017, of which we have another 29 days. I will find out. I know the first one, I believe, was on the Aurora Research Institute. I will find out where the second one is and share that information with the Members. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mr. Speaker, shipping and shipping-related activities are administered and regulated under the Canadian Shipping Act and Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act which falls under the purview of Transport Canada. ENR recently participated in Transport Canada's panel discussion as part of their tanker safety expert review process, and we also participated in an Environment and Climate Change Canada science table that was formed to respond to the grounding of the barge in Tuktoyaktuk. Any opportunity we have, Mr. Speaker, to bring it to the attention of our federal counterparts, we use that...

No, Mr. Chair, I will not. We have significant funding that is earmarked towards those particular initiatives, and this is one that the work needed to be done to update the study. Thank you.