Wally Schumann

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's specifically for ITI, but it's for all regions in the Northwest Territories. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

That is correct. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, a comment on the Mineral Resource Act royalty part of it. There were two discussions in our public engagement, and, once we got to the intergovernmental council, that is where the decision was made to put that on hold on the royalties.

As far as the Oil and Petroleum Resource Act going forward and the Oil and Gas Operations Act, we will have our public engagement sessions as well. The demand we will be meeting is probably exactly the same thing with the intergovernmental council, having those discussions with them. I couldn't comment at this point if the...

Yes, that is correct. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. My understanding is we provided that information to committee. That leftover money is usually used for raw materials, travel, salaries, those sorts of things. We can have another look at that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I have stated before, our fur program is for the Mackenzie Valley Fur Program for marketing and promotion, and I believe those questions would probably be better directed to the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources when he comes up. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The safety plans going forward is a condition of your TOL, so, if you don't have your safety plan in place, I suspect that you’re not going to get your tourism operator licence and you will be forced to shut down. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We've been currently funding that from within the ITI budget. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's right. It's $142,000. The increase relates to an interdepartmental reallocation to fund the fulltime occupational health and safety specialists and an area corporate services clerk for Hay River. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So this will be a new collection station, which we don't have right now on the north side of the lake. Once this thing is established, we can have fishermen fishing out of, particularly out of, Yellowknife, to access the zone on this side of the lake and be able to contribute to the new power strategy going forward. Thank you, Mr. Chair.