Thank you, Mr. Handley. Mr. Krutko.
Debates of June 26th, 2000
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David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Could the Minister elaborate a little more on the $218,000, and also I believe there was $230,000 you had mentioned, of other expenditures.?
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Joe Handley Weledeh
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the $232,000 I made reference to is for the petroleum advisor positions we have in the regions. The $218,000 is a reallocation for full-time salaries that are permanent position salaries we have in the department. It is just a matter of reallocating where our salary dollars are.
I might add, Mr. Chairman, that we have 66 summer students working in the department this year. That accounts for part of it. We feel it is a good expenditure. Thank you.
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David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Under other expenses, there is also an increase there from the 1999-2000 main estimates to 2000-2001, which is almost $1 million. Could the Minister elaborate on the million dollar increase in other expenses?
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Kennedy
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In terms of that total activity, as the Minister mentioned, some money came in both in salaries and O and M for the Liard-Mackenzie. Plus, the Development Corporation funding was reduced. Some of that money was a result of this particular activity was under-funded, so $641,000 was transferred in from the Development Corporation funding. There was another reallocation of $139,000 in O and M. That is approximately the $1 million the Member is referring to. Thank you.
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David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, with this $631,000, the budget does not really reflect it, but there have been dollars taken out of the Business Development Corporation and put into the Community Futures Program, where it was transferred...it states there is $270,000, or $2.2 million. Where the previous years, it was $400,000 and something. Yet a lot of that money went to these different regional business associations. I am just wondering, out of that $631,000, how is it broken down? By region or by different communities?
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Joe Handley Weledeh
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, some of it is broken down by region. Some of it is broken down by activity. There are some things we had to fund. For example, after division, we had Holman Island, which became part of the Inuvik Region. We needed money for both the cost of an operation there, plus we needed money on polar bear research.
There are other adjustments that have been made, depending on where we had to put our priorities. Post-division, there were a number of these done in order to meet the ongoing demands we have in various areas. Holman Island took up a big piece of it. Thank you.
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The Chair Leon Lafferty
Thank you. Questions or comments? Operations expense. Mr. Delorey,
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Paul Delorey Hay River North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was wondering about the Business Development Fund, is there any money left in that fund? Is there still money there to borrow?
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The Chair Leon Lafferty
Mr. Handley.
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Joe Handley Weledeh
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the total amount in that fund is $2.3 million. The money is divided up by region. It does not leave very much in any region. It leaves two or three hundred thousand in each of the regions. Probably by this time, a good chunk of it is already spoken for. It is one of the reasons why we need to have an economic development agreement, in order to boost that up. Two, three, four hundred thousand is not very much to provide business support. Thank you.
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The Chair Leon Lafferty
Mr. Delorey.
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Paul Delorey Hay River North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, is there any money being received back to the government from this fund that has been going out? If there is, where does that money go?
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The Chair Leon Lafferty
Mr. Handley.
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Joe Handley Weledeh
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the BDF money is contributions. It is contributions for businesses for doing feasibility studies of it, new business expansions, and so on. Being a contribution, it is not repayable to us, so we do not show any revenue back.
As I said before, the only place we make loans from are through the Business Credit Corporation or Community Futures. The rest of it is contributions. Thank you.
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The Chair Leon Lafferty
Mr. Delorey.
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Paul Delorey Hay River North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Is there any attempt by the department to spread this money out evenly in the regions or the communities to help with businesses? Is there any attempt at all to do that?
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The Chair Leon Lafferty
Mr. Handley.