Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’m just wondering under -- and I am on 2-17 -- just looking for an explanation on the 2008-09 actuals are $332,000 under contract services, and it’s dropped substantially to $158,000 in the 2010-11 mains. I’m just wondering, maybe -- I think that’s probably a good thing -- but maybe just an explanation on why. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Minister Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the area of the contract services, there are a number of contracts that carried over from the start of this government. We entered into a number of contracts to help us establish our links between ourselves and Ottawa, as well as provincial governments and some of the initiatives we were undertaking. What’s happened there is those contracts have ended and not been renewed.

Thank you, Minister Roland. Page 2-17, activity summary, Executive, Ministers’ offices, operations expenditure summary, $3.187 million.

Page 2-18, information item. Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess the Ministers’ offices, I’m just wondering, on a breakdown percentage or a breakdown of the 17 positions, how many of those positions are aboriginal people of the 17? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Minister Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Sixty-one percent or 11 positions.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Thank you, committee. Page 2-18, information item, Executive, Ministers’ offices, active positions.

Page 2-21, activity summary, Department of Executive, executive operations, operations expenditure summary, $6.793 million. Agreed?

Agreed. Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just wondering why travel has gone up so much under executive operations from what would appear to be $183,000 in 2008-2009 to over $400,000 in the 2010-2011 mains. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Minister Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The increased travel results from an increased travel on the 2011 Census report, so we will be going to all the communities to help with doing that census as it happens in 2011. As well, because we are starting to step up on our devolution discussions again on re-engagement, we have increased travel there to about $20,000, we’re estimating, and then the rest of that will fall into the increase related to projects from the forest services in rural remote communities is another one of those reasons. That goes to my opening comments talking about recommendations made by rural and remote communities of the pilot projects of single window service centres. Thank you.

I am just wondering what role the Government of the Northwest Territories has in the census support. The federal government is responsible, I believe, for census in the Northwest Territories and I am just wondering why we would be paying, I guess to hold their hand, when they go to the communities or make sure that they get accurate numbers, if it is accurate numbers, that is something that I can understand, because we want the numbers to be as accurate as possible. So who would be doing that? Are we going to hire somebody to do that or is it going to be... Actually, the best thing would be to have somebody in the community that knows the community instead of bringing somebody in from the outside for support.

If support can be found in the community, that is where it should be and cut down on travel costs. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In fact, it is to ensure there is an accurate count. We had a huge problem in 2001 with that census. We stepped up and did a similar exercise in the 2006 Census and it greatly increased the accuracy, and we are going to ensure that remains the same. The process is the hiring of local people, but they need to come in and do the training, as well, then back to those communities and at times we might have to cover off some of those communities as well. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Next on my list, we are on page 2-21, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Ramsay asked the question for me.

Very good. Committee, we are on page 2-21, activity summary, Department of Executive, executive operations, operations expenditure summary, $6.793 million. Agreed?

Page 2-22, activity summary, Department of Executive, executive operations, grants and contributions, contributions, $390,000. Mr. Yakeleya.