Robert C. McLeod

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, what I can commit to the Member is we will reconcile these numbers here with the Housing Corporation mains because I think it will show up in the Housing Corporation mains. Their mains are still getting an increase of funding partly from the federal government. What I will commit to do is I will reconcile this, and then I will share it with the Member. Hopefully, we will have a better understanding of how the numbers came to be. Mr. Chair, thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the Member is correct. The audits were done. We have a couple of communities that are facing some challenges. I am not sure if it is appropriate to speak to those particular communities in a public forum such as this. If we enter into a briefing with committee, I would be glad to share some of the information, some of the details. Through the accountability framework, we are going to have the capacity now to pick up a lot of these issues soon. That will prevent a lot of our communities, as in the past, from getting into any financial difficulties. We will be...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, our regional fire marshal or assistant fire marshals, as they’re called, will work with communities to identify some of the challenges they face. If there’s some training capacity or capacity issues they’ll help them design a program or help them get trained so they can deal with that. If there’s an equipment issue or if it’s a capital issue, then they will work with them to identify exactly what they need, what they could use, and then the community has it within the money that’s provided by MACA to purchase the proper equipment. My understanding is our fire...

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. We’re just giving the amounts that were approved. As for the actual applications and the requests, we would have to go back and look at the applications, total the requests, and then we can share with the Member or all Members, if they require it. I will make that commitment to share that number with the Member. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the Member is correct. I mean, they can apply for it every year. They can bank it, and they can also supplement it with their O and M funding or their capital funding as well, to offset the cost. The Member is absolutely correct, they can bank it. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we, I think, just finalized the draft, and we’re anticipating within a month or two that we will be able to have developed materials. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, it’s not something that we are looking at, at the moment. However, having said that, we are going into business plans in September. We have three weeks, I believe, with business plans. There’ll be opportunity there for us to have that discussion with Members on a way forward. We look forward to having that discussion because we have seen some of the numbers that the Member references. We’ll have that discussion with Regular Members when we go through our business plans in September, and we’ll plan a course of action from there. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm not sure about that. My understanding was the band land was used for a lot of housing that went up. My understanding is the Housing Corporation had some units on some band land and there was a question as to the ownership of the land, and those units were then  they weren't reverted back to the band. I think they wrote most of them off because they were a lot of older units that were actually 1968 Indian housing. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. Ms. Hilderman.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I am pleased to present the 2016-2017 Main Estimates for the Department of Lands. Overall, the department’s estimates propose a net decrease of $1,015,000, a decrease of three per cent from the 2015-16 main estimates, and a decrease of four positions. These estimates directly support the objectives of limiting expenditure growth in order to achieve the long-term sustainability of the fiscal framework. The estimates include $133,000 for one additional remote sensing analyst for the Western Arctic Centre for Geomatics in Inuvik. Funding for a new Western Arctic...