Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We contribute to the Take a Kid Trapping Program and we can have a discussion with the RWED Minister on Mr. Jacobson’s concerns. ENR Minister. RWED. Sorry.
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Page 6-41, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, regional operations, grants and contributions, other grants and contributions, grants, $80,000.
Agreed.
Page 6-41, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, regional operations, grants and contributions, other grants and contributions, contributions, $1.125 million.
Agreed.
Page 6-41, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, regional operations, grants and contributions, total other grants and contributions, $1.205 million.
Agreed.
Page 6-41, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, regional operations, total grants and contributions, $66.592 million.
Agreed.
Page 6-42, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, information item, regional operations, active positions.
Agreed.
Page 6-44, Municipal and Community Affairs, information item. Mr. Krutko.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. In regard to the implantation and the two whole thousand dollars you get for implementation of the...(inaudible)...land claim agreements, I’d like to know, is there also a duty to consult in regard to Municipal and Community Affairs. I know you’re presently in the process of reviewing the squatters policy and whatnot and I know this issue has come to the attention of the Minister by way of our Gwich’in leadership meeting in Inuvik in regard to the squatters at Airport Lake in Inuvik in which the Gwich’in are requesting that you have an obligation to consult, especially where their lands are being affected by activities next to the… I’d like to know exactly what obligation does Municipal and Community Affairs have to consult within the land claim agreements, especially when you talk about municipal lands and municipal activities that affect lands that basically an acquire to a land claim agreement.
Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Minister McLeod.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. With respect to the land lease use and policy, we have invited them to be a part of the process. We do plan on consulting with them and also with the area in question. I think the lake borders the Gwich’in claim, so there’s going to be a committee of Gwich’in, Municipal and Community Affairs and the Town as to how to best manage the development along the lake. We are consulting with the Gwich’in. Thank you.
In regards to the agreements, like I mentioned, the duty to consult, again, there are activities that MACA does in which they have an obligation to consult. Again, there are lands in the community which are called municipal lands which were selected under the land claim agreements. There are lands in the Sahtu. There are lands in the Gwich’in. I’d just like to know how do you deal with those lands which are negotiated under the land claim agreements within municipal boundaries.
Mr. Chair, we will consult with all affected Aboriginal groups where required to do so. Thank you.
I noted that your last year mains you requested $2,000 and you ended up spending $12,000. I’d like to know what was the additional $10,000 for.
Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Mr. Aumond.
Really this money, we get $2,000 a year, and if we don’t spend it the money carries over, which is why you will see in the 2010-11 main estimates it’s $2,000 but the revised mains are $12,000. If we don’t spend that money, basically it’s just for paying of gravel royalties, and if the gravel royalties aren’t requested, then we carry that money over from one year to the next. Thank you.
Again, for clarification, royalties? What royalties did you have to pay for the remaining $12,000?
Thank you, Mr. Krutko, Minister McLeod.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. It’s just money that we pay to the Gwich’in if we take any gravel or sand from their claim area. Thank you.
Thank you, Minister McLeod. We’re on page 6-44, Municipal and Community Affairs. It’s an information item. Work performed on behalf of others.
Agreed.
We’re on 6-45, Municipal and Community Affairs, information item, work performed on behalf of others, continued.
Agreed.
That concludes the detail. We’ll go back to the summary page on 6-7. We’re on 6-7, Municipal and Community Affairs, department summary, operations expenditure summary, $93.335 million.
Agreed.
Is committee agreed that we’ve concluded consideration of Municipal and Community Affairs?
Agreed.
Congratulations, committee. That’s two departments in one day. Mr. Minister, if I can get you to thank your witnesses for me. Sergeant-at-Arms, if we can please get you to escort them out. Thank you both for coming and answering questions.
Committee, Mrs. Groenewegen, what is the wish of committee?
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that we report progress.
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Can I have the report of Committee of the Whole, please, Mr. Abernethy.
Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 133-16(5), Northwest Territories Main Estimates, 2011-2012, and would like to report progress. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Motion is on the floor. Do we have a seconder? The honourable Member for Hay River South, Mrs. Groenewegen.
---Carried
Orders of the day for Tuesday, February 22, 2011, at 1:30 p.m.:
Prayer
Ministers’ Statements
Members’ Statements
Returns to Oral Questions
Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery
Acknowledgements
Oral Questions
Written Questions
Returns to Written Questions
Replies to Opening Address
Petitions
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
Reports of Committees on the Review of Bills
Tabling of Documents
Notices of Motion
Notices of Motion for First Reading of Bills
Motions
Motion 36-16(5), Joe Greenland Centre
First Reading of Bills
Second Reading of Bills
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Tabled Document 4-16(5), Executive Summary of the Report of the Joint Review Panel for the Mackenzie Gas Project
Tabled Document 30-16(5), 2010 Review of Members’ Compensation and Benefits
Tabled Document 38-16(5), Supplementary Health Benefits - What We Heard
Tabled Document 62-16(5), Northern Voices, Northern Waters: NWT Water Stewardship Strategy
Tabled Document 75-16(5), Response to the Joint Review Panel for the Mackenzie Gas Project on the Federal and Territorial Governments’ Interim Response to “Foundation for a Sustainable Northern Future”
Tabled Document 103-16(5), GNWT Contracts over $5,000 Report, Year Ending March 31, 2010
Tabled Document 133-16(5), Northwest Territories Main Estimates, 2011-2012
Tabled Document 135-16(5), GNWT Response to CR 3-16(5): Report on the Review of the Child and Family Services Act
Bill 4, An Act to Amend the Social Assistance Act
Bill 14, An Act to Amend the Conflict of Interest Act
Bill 15, An Act to Amend the Fire Prevention Act
Bill 17, An Act to Amend the Income Tax Act
Bill 18, An Act to Repeal the Settlements Act
Bill 19, Municipal Statutes Amendment Act
Bill 20, An Act to Amend the Evidence Act
Minister’s Statement 65-16(5), Devolution Agreement-in-Principle, Impact on Land Claims and Protection of Aboriginal Rights
Minister’s Statement 88-16(5), Sessional Statement
Report of Committee of the Whole
Third Reading of Bills
Orders of the Day
Thank you, Madam Clerk. Accordingly, this House stands adjourned until Tuesday, February 22, 2011, at 1:30 p.m.
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The House adjourned at 8:03 p.m.
