Wally Schumann

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That will be this fiscal year. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I guess the one thing I would like to add to that is one thing that we did in this government, too, is we added a whole new region in the Northwest Territories and in the Sahtu, which, you know, there was some strong support from the Member from the Sahtu region to make them their own region. I think, as we are moved forward with five strong regions, the regional support has just gotten better by doing that, as well. That is just an extra comment I wanted to add. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's the answer that Ms. Salvador just gave him. There were contributions for 2017-2018 in order to promote the Northwest Territories and all those number of initiatives that were mentioned by the Director of Finance. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, it does, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. On my left is director of Corporate Services, Vince McCormick, of Infrastructure. On my right is Paul Guy, deputy minister of Infrastructure. On my far right is Jaylene Robertson, assistant deputy minister of Regional Operations. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Ever since I got this file, the film industry has moved a long way. We've done a number of things working with the film Commission and moving the Western Arctic Movie Pictures and NWT Professional Media Association along. We continue to promote them alongside them. As I've said, we've offered this new officer to help them promote the industry in the Northwest Territories. Last year, at their first annual gala, we supported a new apprenticeship program for its members, which was greatly appreciated by the industry. The feedback that I've got from them to help them grow the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Presently, we are working with our own forces internally with the design on this thing. We are working closely with ITI on it, as well. When it comes time to build this, we will be coming forward with appropriate appropriations to build that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

As I said, we have our regional strategies. Those are good over the long term, I think, to help the Indigenous governments on where they want to go on this. Our own mineral development and petroleum strategies lay out concrete actions to support Indigenous governments. They are clearly laid out in that. Ultimately, it really comes down to engagement. It is something that we have proven that we are very good at encouraging. We have seen that at Round Up already, the last two times that we have been down there. We have a defined structure that is already in place with the public and Indigenous...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. One of the things that we've done, on recommendation from the Regular Members was, we want more data, so we've taken that initiative. We're taking that step to track these programs, and some of the stuff they're doing within our department. We've clearly set out some internal working groups that collect more data for us to be able to make better decisions on, are we getting value for money around these programs that we're in charge of. This is early days of collecting that data, but as I've said, we've got to compete with resources with every other department with the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have met with Mr. Philipp myself a number of times. It will be either around his battery initiative that he is working on or his proposed idea of centralized heat within a community and electricity. We have had a number of discussions with him. I have asked him to sit down with our director of energy and have those conversations to kind of dissected a bit. As I have said in the House, when I talked to Mr. Philipp, I was a little bit concerned about the size of the project and the amount that he wanted to chew off at once. Even, I was a little bit concerned about the...