Wally Schumann

Thank you, Mr. Chair. When you read the strategy, the strategy is for all of Great Slave Lake; it's not just for Hay River, but, in particular for the Yellowknife Member, we're looking at one of them being the pickup point here, in Yellowknife. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I thank the Member for his comments. We have seven positions right now in that division, and I do not anticipate us cutting any of them. We have a number of things moving forward wherein we have to have people in these positions. We are going to be coming out with our strategy here very shortly on the Petroleum Resource Act. We have the Oil and Gas Operations Act that has to be maintained, as well, as the Member has said, with line 21 possibly coming on. I think, with this shutdown, it has made us kind of open our eyes and ears on the reclamation side of things, and we...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As Ms. Mujcin said, it is a timing issue, and we should be able to maybe provide the actual number closer to the end of March, the end of this quarter, what the actually number will be, but we anticipate it is probably going to be less than the $292,000 you see here because there are less hectares. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, I met with some of the fishermen when I was home this weekend, and I thought that we'd have a winter fishery. I believe there would be a concern of mine going forward if that was to take place, but it doesn't sound like they're going to do any winter fishing this year. It is from my understanding talking to some of the fishermen, come April 1st when the new money rolls out, the fishermen can't get out on the lake until late June to do that part of it. We can have a look at this, but I always thought that the subsidiary was based on the amount of fish that...

The MayJune session. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, to answer the Member's question, specifically, we haven't reached out to bring them like we normally would, like we did last year, or go to the AME Roundup type of thing that we just did in Vancouver.

In this particular case, we haven't done that because of the state of the oil and gas economy in the Northwest Territories. We're going to be coming out with our petroleum resource strategy in the near future, and, as I've said in this House, we're looking at concentrating on how we're going to use this resource locally the best we can and, at the same time, figure out...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. This line item is very similar to what has happened with the nominee program. It's a historical number, but we're looking at increasing that because then the number of applicants has actually gone up a little bit here already, and we will continue to revise these numbers as we move forward. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. This previous position was costshared between ITI and the Department of ENR. We have moved to a new location now, so this is fully funded from within ITI. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. My understanding is this was historically here because it was under the Economic Development Diversification Fund there, so maybe that's something we can look at going down the road. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No. Thank you, Mr. Chair.