Thank you, Mr. Braden. We understand from some of the background research that committee has done into this, that the location of these two positions has yet to be determined. So we don't know which regions or which communities they are going to go to. In fact, similar positions that have been recruited for in the past have been extremely difficult to recruit to. On this one, I am with Mr. McLeod. I looking at the amount of resources, both PY and financial, and it should be noted here that this is $291,000 for two positions. I am assuming that includes travel and related expense to this job. So these are not inexpensive positions. One thing that our information did not give me a good insight into, Mr. Chairman, was the function. Just what do these jobs do? They are called regional resource development impact advisors. I know that we have a lot of resource related advisors and expertise already in the Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment. We have a pipeline office created by the GNWT ostensibly to coordinate and bring this kind of thing together. What function are these positions have for MACA? I was not able to secure a satisfying answer on how the performance and the objectives and results are measured from what these positions would do. So in the sense that we seem to have beefed up a whole bunch of preparation capacity and awareness on pipeline and resource impacts, but to the point where I can't really see what is the value of putting almost $300,000 of taxpayers' money into this.
I guess another aspect of this was that while it was suggested that these two positions would be located in one of four communities; Inuvik, Norman Wells, Fort Simpson or Hay River, depending on the choice of the successful candidate if they are found. Now these are regional resource development advisors. In the North Slave region and in the South Slave region, except for what we might call Hay River and Fort Simpson, there is not a lot of oil and gas activity going on, but there is a bunch of other stuff. Would these positions have anything to do with resource activity going on, for instance, in this region, in the Yellowknife region? According to this list here, by the selection of which communities they could be stationed in, probably not. So, Mr. Chairman, I don't see the value in this. I support the motion.