Robert C. McLeod

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the Member staying off youth and moving on to this one. I will commit to Ms. Bisaro that I will have a discussion with my colleagues as to why we have three different pots. If we can pool them into one, then I will commit to Ms. Bisaro that is something we will do before the next budget cycle.

That offer was meant to all members of committee and that offer stands. We’d be more than happy to provide committee with detail and seek some input from committee.

We have 16 communities that have updated emergency plans and 15 that need some updating. We have two that don’t have updated plans and we continue to encourage them to come forth with an emergency plan. But communities have done a great job in responding to emergencies and now that we’re getting the plans in place, I think they’re going to be better equipped in the future to respond to any particular type of emergency in the community.

I’m not sure when the last time was. Again, we’ll look to gather that information and share it with the Members.

Thank you. We’d be willing to provide a copy.

Mr. Chair, I’ll have Mr. Schauerte respond to that.

Our folks go in there and they support the communities, because the communities are taking the initiative to put their emergency plans together, so we go in and we support them and we work with them. We do have some expertise, so we share that with them.

Mr. Chair, we don’t have the information with us, but I will commit to Member Hawkins that we’ll gather the information and pass that on to him and committee.

Thank you. They have a requirement to report to us on an annual basis.

We’ve had some hotel operators from Fort Smith, and Inuvik did express some concerns. Exactly what those concerns are, word for word, I don’t really know, but they have expressed some concern with this.