Caitlin Cleveland

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, this was the first increase to the cost of our park fees, our park stays for the first time in 15 years. It works out to about 40 cents a year for the campsite per night, or a $5 increase. And while we want as many people, for sure, to enjoy our parks as possible, we've tried to ensure that we're keeping up with kind of industry standards as well as still ensuring that we are making that sector a viable sector for people who operate private campgrounds as well in the territory. And I can confirm for the Member as well that we're not -- we're kind...

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, they were natural sunsets of the program. So those dollars weren't put in on an ongoing recurring basis. One of them was monies that were afforded to us through CanNor specifically for wildfire relief, and then the other one was a one-year arrangement that was negotiated as part of budget negotiations in a previous government. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I'd like to pass to the deputy minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'd be more than happy to commit to the Member to sharing the schedule of Mining Week on my Facebook page to ensure that people have access to it. But there's everything from virtual events so that people can participate across the territory. There's also rock walks happening so people can get out and hold some cool rocks, and believe me, there's a ton of them out there. There are also site tours for lift and lithium, which is a pretty big deal in the North Slave region at the moment and one we definitely want to make sure that people have the...

Sorry, Mr. Chair. Can the Member be more specific about what he's looking for. At ITI, we don't do mine training, per se, you know, as ECE might, and don't have mining positions, but this is the section that houses our Pathfinders if that's what the Member is looking for.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the primary driver of that is we have a visitors centre that's actually located outside of the Northwest Territories in the Yukon. It's the Dempster Delta Visitor Information Centre. It is in a -- on a piece of land in a building that we leased, and the Indigenous government on whose land that sits would like that facility back. And so that facility is going to be no longer. And ITI is looking at other ways that it can ensure that visitors to the area and to the region have access to information about the Northwest Territories. So, for example, in the...

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, the line item that's towards the top of the page, the Canadian Agriculture Partnership, the GNWT was able to renegotiate that deal and it resulted in actually an increase which is now found at the very bottom of the page under the Sustainable Canadian Agriculture Partnership. And that agreement is to the tune of $7.6 million over the lifetime of the agreement, and you can see here that it has gone up from the -- what was allotted under the Canadian Agriculture Partnership. So for 2024-2025, it's sitting just over $1.5 million. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Yellowknife.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, of course I couldn't speak directly to the correlation, but what I can say is every year while the mineral incentive policy is fully subscribed that not every year are all of those dollars spent. Sometimes at the end of the year companies have to give those dollars back because they weren't able to spend them how they originally anticipated. But I would say the best thing that we can do to continue to increase exploration in the territory is continue to have good conversation like this, continue to make sure that we are participating in events...

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, microclusters are these basically, like, individual business entities that kind of grow and generate themselves within different communities. So, for example, you know, if I travelled to community X, Y, Z, and they're saying, you know, we're really interested in getting agriculture going, we really see the potential, and that starts to generate and you end up with this microcluster of an agriculture industry within that one community that grows and supports itself and evolves from there, and Hay River is a great example of that where, you know...