Shane Thompson

Thank you, Madam Chair. Right now, I would have to say no, it hasn't been resolved. We're looking into it and, again, we're trying to get it right, but right now I can say that it has not been resolved, to our knowledge. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Right now, we are still continuing to keep this in there. It's part of working with the Gwich'in comprehensive land claim process, the Sahtu Dene and the Metis process, as well. Basically, we have agreements with these land claim agreements, and we need to keep this as part of the agreement. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I am not going to say that we didn't or we did. We are working on our consultation. We are working with Aboriginal groups. We haven't stopped working on this plan. To get it completed, we don't know what the completion date is as we move forward. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Regulations enforcement, well, first of all we have got to get the regulations done. Then we can enforce the public lands act. We have made a commitment to committee that it's going to take us up to three years to do it because we need to do it right. We have a number of challenges out there of the way lands were managed in the past, and so we have made a commitment to have it done in three years. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. In 2019-2020, we spent $647,000, and Infrastructure spent $79,000 for a total of $753,000. For the fiscal year coming up, we budgeted $497,000, and Infrastructure has budgeted $79,000, for a total of $576,000. Thank you, Madam Chair.

I apologize. We're still trying to get the earpiece to work.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We're talking recreational leases and that. That's something different than equity leases. Equity leases have been agreements made by the government and the constituent or the client to turn that over. The Member is asking us to look outside the boundary, to look at his riding that he represents and other ridings that have this issue. Right now, we're not able to do that. Right now, we have to focus on trying to get the tasks that we need to get done. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Also, people have to understand that there is a difference between land lease fees and taxation issues. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. It's a relatively new policy, so we can come back to committee. I am not going to make a commitment, but I will make a commitment that we will come back to committee to have further conversations on this. Like I said, it's a relatively new policy. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. It will depend on what we can contain in the business plan. Thank you, Madam Chair.