Wally Schumann

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...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Our role would be as partners and supporters of Indigenous governments to do this. We are very interested in working closely with Indigenous governments and their development corporations, our federal partners, the federal government, to achieve the shared goals of economic empowerment, for sure. It is a conversation that has already started rolling out. We had an economic summit in Inuvik last fall. The Premier had one. Myself and the Minister of Finance were there. We are committed to continuing these types of conversations. I think the summit was a good starting...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just to give the Member an idea, I will run through it really quickly. In 2010-2011, we had 418. In the next calendar years, 448, 437, 454, 480, 410, 441, 445, are the number of applicants, but the number of people approved changes year to year depending on the type of applications that we receive. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. When you look at our 2030 Energy Strategy, the way that we have laid that thing out, we have our three-year rolling plan going forward. The reason that we have done this is just because of new technologies and things changing out there. More study and more data is needed to better understand the geothermal resources in the Northwest Territories. With that being said, this is a 10-year plan rolled out by the federal government. There may be opportunities to have a look at the geothermal situation in the Northwest Territories. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have just received it, and we are in the process of reviewing it as we speak. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

As I have said in previous questions from the Member and the House, I think that this is a great idea. On the second part of the question, I don't know if we need to be the initiator of it. I am going to talk to my superintendent in the region about having a conversation with the local community groups that need to be involved, but I think that this needs to be pushed as well from the local group, and maybe with some input from our MLA from the riding, to get some input from him, as well. I think that this needs to be collaborative approach, not just a one-sided approach, but we certainly need...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. For the number of years that we have tracked it from 2010 to now, it has either been almost 100 percent subscribed or else oversubscribed. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I've been questioned in the House last shipping season about what we were doing around some of this commercial activity that we are doing, MTS is going to continue, of course, to contract with Imperial Oil to supply and deliver fuel to Norman Wells. That's in place, and it is there for a number of years going forward.

We are laying out what our marine charter services and support are going to be going forward, and one of the things that we are looking at is how can we support the federal government with the North Warning Fuel Supply program in the Western Arctic. Those...