Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the effort was made by the department to put one position in each of the regions in the Valley; one in the Sahtu, one in Inuvik and one in the Deh Cho. There is one position that was kept in headquarters. That position works on the Mackenzie Valley development planning exercise. This is an exercise to attempt to coordinate input and issues from all of the departments across the Northwest Territories.
There is a deputy minister steering committee and a number of working committees that have worked to make sure everything we are doing is well coordinated.
We are still, even though there is oil and gas happening, we are still very much in a planning exercise as well. There is development going on in the Liard, but we still need to do planning in order to ensure that we do end up with a pipeline, and if we do have a pipeline, it is what people are expecting in terms of equity and so on.
The position is in headquarters, Mr. Speaker, because that is where the planning for the Mackenzie Valley planning exercise is going on. Thank you.