Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development. As I mentioned in my Member's statement, I have a constituent who applied to the hunters and trappers disaster compensation program. He missed the application deadline as he didn't know about the program. If a person did not know about the compensation program and missed the deadline, would their case still be considered?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In a case like this, the gentlemen had made an application to seek compensation through the Wildlife harvesters' compensation program. Because of him not knowing about this program, he applied about four years after the incident happened. We are currently reviewing his appeal because he was rejected on that basis. So we are dealing with that situation right now. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I know that the government provides information about their grants and contribution programs to the department, libraries and some non-government offices. I would like to ask the Minister if he would ensure that the trappers and the people who are harvesting on the land are getting that information. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, the responsibility of the superintendent in the region is to carry out programs and services of the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic development. It's their responsibility to ensure that the programs that we provide are decimated out to the communities. I cannot tell you exactly how that happens in the Members' constituency, in his riding. I will assure you that the message is clear. We are reviewing his appeal at the present time and hopefully if he is unilingual, we will make sure he gets the information through translation services of some sort. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to thank the Minister for his answer and I would like to ask him if he could share his correspondence that he gives to his superintendents with me and also with the House? Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I have no problem providing that information. This is the normal day-to-day operation of trying to get the programs into the communities. I would like to share that information.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just going back to the programs, part of the eligibility criteria for some of the programs they have is an applicant has to prove that they have earned at least 25 percent of their gross income from renewable resource harvesting for the period 12 months immediately prior to the incident. Mr. Speaker, I don't know of any caribou, muskrat or rabbit that is walking around in the forest with a price tag glued to its legs. I would like to ask the Minister how can someone prove their income if there is no price on these animals.

Mr. Speaker, this is a program that's been in place for a number of years and we are trying to work with it. The way this program works is that through the income from trapping, through the records of the amount of fur that was sold in the previous year, this is what is used to determine the amount of income. It's the best way to determine the income from trapping at this point in time. Thank you.

Yes, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, through this memorandum of understanding with the Gwich'in and the Government of the Northwest Territories, we tried to estimate and tried to determine what is out there. According to the memorandum of understanding we are dealing with capital as well as operational maintenance. So it is both capital and operations and maintenance. We asked all the departments to come up with a list from their respective departments on the type of capital and operations and maintenance that we do out there in the Mackenzie Delta and the area. The list came back and that is the complete list that we have up to date which includes multi-year, as-and-when type of arrangements and every type of other arrangement we have out there. That is how we came up with this list. Thank you.