Tom Beaulieu

Mr. Speaker, I'd like to ask the Minister if his department is able to commit funding to YK Dene First Nation for their skill development program.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize your interpreter for the last couple of weeks from Tu Nedhe, Mary Rose Sundberg. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Can I get another explanation from Mr. Martin? I will try to follow it a little bit better now. It is just that I am not sure that I fully understood what the response was. I will try to quantify what I think that would be. It is just that I was listening for something else and heard something else. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chairman, sorry, it caught me a little off-guard. I thought that this was for the district operations, and in that I mean the operations of the district staff, all the staff that work in the district operations. I didn’t know that these were the program dollars for the communities. I thought they were just the staff that were there and I was anticipating that maybe there was a reduction in the number of staff in those district offices. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Last question. That means there is enough money there for one more community to come forward to access their portion of the budget? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That would be three from 2015-16 or is it three for 2016-17? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, committee wishes to consider Tabled Document 50-18(2), Main Estimates, 2016-2017, and committee would like to consider the NWT Housing Corporation, Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment, and Department of Justice. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That’s good. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Martin’s response indicated that this was an accounting reduction, and it is a reduction in the programs. But my assumption was that this was… The North Slave and South Slave district offices were fully staffed. I just thought that if there was $2 million less spent in the North Slave office only two fiscal years ago, if there was a reduction in the staff that caused that. That was what my question was. Maybe I will ask the question: was there a reduction in the staff in either of those two offices, North Slave or South Slave?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, similar questions on the reductions. My interest of course in the North Slave district and South Slave district. Just wondering if they could explain the reductions compared to the actuals in 2014-15.