Thank you. Page 18, Industry, Tourism and Investment, operation expenditures, economic development, not previously authorized, $527,000, total department, $527,000.

Thank you. Page 19, Environment and Natural Resources, operations expenditures, forest management, not previously authorized, $127,000, wildlife management, not previously authorized, $57,000, total department not previously authorized, $184,000.

Thank you, Committee. Page 20, Municipal and Community Affairs, capital investment expenditures, regional operations, not previously authorized, $874,000, total department, $874,000. Committee?

Thank you. Page 21, Health and Social Services, capital investment expenditures, health services programs, not previously authorized, $315,000. I have Mr. Yakeleya.

Mr. Chair, the funding for tenants' improvement. Is that our own building or is that someone else who owns that building, the Great Slave Medical House?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister Roland, please.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I believe it is a leased building.

Thank you, Minister Roland. Mr. Yakeleya, please.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. A leased building, so that's not our building, it's somebody else's building?

Minister Roland, please.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, it is another property. What we have done in the past as a government when we've entered into facilities and leased them, if we need to make changes in the structure or office space, or requirement for space, we would take that on and pay for those changes. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister Roland. Mr. Yakeleya, please.

Thank you. So is this a practice by this government to support these types of buildings that need improvements, or office space, or renovations, because I'm having a difficult time right now to know some double standards? So is this common practice that this building gets improved by this government to help out a landlord? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, for the details of this change, maybe we can go to Minister Miltenberger on that. But it is common practice for the government, when it does lease facilities to make changes to those facilities for our own requirements, that we fund those changes. This particular amount that's allocated and requested is also being covered off by the agreement with the federal government, but for more details on the specific case, Minister Miltenberger could probably provide some more detail.

Thank you, Minister Roland. Minister Miltenberger, please.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Back in the year 2000 there was a fund agreed to at the First Ministers of Health meetings under their primary health care transition fund. About $4.7 million was our share and there were 11 projects that were developed across the North. The program took a long time to unfold. One of the projects that was agreed to was to look at how do we advance our primary health care model, which would allow us to integrate our services at the community level with the nurse practitioners and the doctors and the nurses. Back then the plan was to do some modifications to the Great Slave Medical Clinic to in fact allow that to take place. That is what this is. It's a one-time, it was a pilot project and it was to do these program developments on a pilot basis. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, again, we've certainly seen some improvements needed in our smaller communities and it seems like it's not getting some of the attention that is needed. I'm trying to follow this process here and some of these buildings that are needed in the communities that need improvements that doesn't seem to make a good acceptable business case for Cabinet sometimes if they take it or leave it and then come back and say well it's not their building, they won't do anything to it or not their responsibility and it's up to the landlords. So I'm having a hard time in terms of something like this. It may be needed and it may be required and even to pay, even though it's funded partially by the Government of Canada, for these tenant's improvements just doesn't seem to cut it in the small communities in terms of any type of proper improvements or services and always come back with no money. You see something like this, it just doesn't feel good, even though they're going ahead with it, but two different levels of health care as far as I'm concerned. However, it's in the budget and that, so I just don't see the equalization of treatment of health care in the Northwest Territories. More of a comment. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister Roland, please.