Wally Schumann

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don't have that type of detail here, but we can have a look at what that would cost. We would probably need more specifics from the Member about the time frame he's thinking. I made the commitment in-House that we would change those tenders, what it would take to keep these parks open a couple of weeks longer at the end of the year because I hear this ongoing concern from a number of people, and particularly both our ridings of Hay River, of wanting to be able to access these things. We can have a look to see what it would cost, but maybe the Member could ask me a...

Mr. Chair, it is probably too early to make a commitment on that. We depend on where this whole strategy ends up and how it rolls out. I couldn't comment if that is how we would roll it out. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, that is correct. It was a federally funded program. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I know the Colville Lake guys produce a large number of sable there, and we continue to help market them and promote them in the marketplace. I think we even had our staff lately promote a sable fur coat at the Chinese Fur Show, competing with the Russian fur. We will continue to market that as a Mackenzie Valley fur product moving forward. As the Member is asking about supporting the industry a little bit further, that's something that we ought to continue to work with our colleagues at ENR on. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is not core funding for them. This is for them to be able to attend various things, like PDAC and AME Mineral Roundup. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That line item includes revenue from the mining recorder's office of rentals, prospecting licence permit fees, claim fees, and other administrative fees related to the registry documents. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We will provide that to the Member. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe he is talking about the line item on page 216 for commercial fisheries, and that is a support program that we have there for freight and production costs of fishing in the Northwest Territories. I know our department has been up to the Member's region and had a workshop there to see who was interested in getting into the commercial fishery in that region. We had a number of stakeholders participate in that.

I have recently had a chat with the chief of Tsiigehtchic, actually, around the discussion of how we can continue to promote that. We will continue to work...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I've stated in the House before, this was a part of our normal operations and our seasonal operations and the amount of money that was allocated to it. I made a commitment in the House when our parks went out to tender that we would have an option on there to have the parks operators give us a price for an additional timeline and we would take that as a consideration if we'd be able to extend the hours of operators and the length of time that they would be open. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We went out and did our public engagement in a number of communities across the Northwest Territories. We are going to be pulling together a What We Heard report. Hopefully, that is going to be done in the very near future, and we will be able to table that probably in the up-and-coming session or post it online before the next session starts. Thank you, Mr. Chair.