Wally Schumann

I will give you a few examples of what we are doing already. As many people in this House know, we have our regional mineral development strategies that we are working with the regions on this, developing them, for those who want to participate in that manner. We are doing two, I think, in this budget cycle again. Our government is already bringing Indigenous governments into the fold as we reach out to the investors of the Global Resource Conference. That is another good example, but we also have funding available from our government to support capacity-building in these areas. We believe...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The plan going forward once we do this review is, one of the things that I am trying to do right now, we have been trying to set a date up so I can sit down with BDIC's board and their chair to have a discussion around this. Then, once that is done, I am going to go to Cabinet with this document and then probably to standing committee.

Time frame-wise, I can't give you an exact date because we have been having a heck of a time here to try to get organized with the board, because they are from all over the Northwest Territories, to set up a time that we can meet. I am...

I will start it, Mr. Chair, and then maybe Vince will want to add something. The GNWT owns the tank farm assets. If we were to have that inside the revolving fund for fuel services, the price of fuel would be unaffordable. It wouldn't be attainable, because that would be right down through MTS. This way, it is in the government assets, and it is written down as a government asset versus through the fuel services. I think I have got that right, but I will defer it to Mr. McCormick here to answer it a little bit better. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

We can supply this chart to the Members, but in 2017-2018, the surplus deficit was $26,888 over. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

As I said, I will get our superintendent to go in there to have a discussion with the tri-council group in the community. I know that there has been a lot of conversation with that group, particularly around the old landing site for the ferry landing, about turning that into a park, which would be a long-term project that we are trying to work on and have discussions with them. I know that there needs to be some restoration work, if I remember from my briefing with DFO on that, but I will be sure that our superintendent, when we goes there and meets with the tri-council again, initiates the...

Yes, this is the section, yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The short answer is no. A number of years ago, there was a proponent that approached the Government of the Northwest Territories to do something in the NWT, but it didn't turn out to be a viable project. With the technology and with the depths they had to drill, it wasn't viable at that time, but the short answer is no. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. From what I know of what is going on with the tourism information centre in Tuktoyaktuk is we are going to help do a feasibility study on the prospect of something happening there, but I think the Member might be referring to something that potentially could be in the capital budget going forward. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

To get a sign along the side of the highway, that is through the Department of Infrastructure. There are both guidelines and a formal process that is in place to approve all sign applications for signage along our highway network in the Northwest Territories. Signs need to meet a technical requirement. Any person or organization who wants to put up a sign must apply through an application process.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As we said, this is a pilot project that we have initiated. The main reasons we have done this are due to safety reasons, for one thing. There has been so much traffic on the Ingraham Trail. A number of the operators who have been operating out there who don't have access to land are stopping right on the highway and turning their lights off for viewing opportunities. That has created a very big safety hazard. As we know, in the wintertime is the resupply for fuel for the diamond mines. There is an atrocious amount of traffic that is out there.

This is one of the reasons...