Mr. Speaker, I have a return To Written Question 6-16(3) asked by Mr. Yakeleya on March 11, 2009, regarding NWT Resource Royalties.
The NWT corporate tax revenues received from resource companies from 1999 to 2007 was $153 million. Tax returns for 2008 have not yet been assessed. The NWT property tax revenues received from resource companies from 1999 to 2008 was $106 million. The NWT fuel tax revenues received from resource companies from 1999-2000 to 2008-2009 was $63 million.
In August 2008, the GNWT provided the Prime Minister with a proposal to resolve the outstanding devolution issues; this included a response to Canada’s resource revenue sharing proposal. I provided a briefing to Standing Committee on Priorities and Planning on this proposal. Preliminary discussions with Canada on the GNWT proposal have commenced. Aboriginal governments have been provided the details of this proposal and are regularly updated on discussions with Canada.
In addition to our agreement with Canada, we remain committed to our resource revenue sharing AIP with aboriginal governments.
Later today, at the appropriate time, I will table a chart providing the available federal resource revenue from non-renewable resource development in the three territories in the previous 10 years including the following categories: Norman Wells project profits, oil and gas leases and royalties, quarrying royalties and mining revenues. The federal government does not release information for the Northwest Territories separately, but we believe that most of the revenues shown come from the Northwest Territories. The chart includes Yukon mining revenues up to 2003-04, when resource revenues from these sources were transferred to Yukon. It includes mining and oil and gas revenues from the NWT and Nunavut for the full period. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.