I said I would commit to exploring it. I can’t make a commitment right here to actually implement it, but I will commit to exploring it and then returning to the Members.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Page 6-17, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, public safety, operations expenditure summary, $1.629 million.

Page 6-18, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, public safety, grants and contributions, total grants and contributions, $200,000.

Page 6-19, Municipal and Community Affairs, information item, public safety, active positions.

Page 6-21, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, community operations, operations expenditure summary, $2.483 million. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to ask with respect to the Minister’s opening comment on page 2 of 4 at the bottom, the increased operations and maintenance funding and water/sewer funding due to population growth, explaining some of the forced growth funding there. I believe we actually are in negative or stable on population. I’m wondering what that was about. Is it people moving into the centres or what would that be about? Are costs going down elsewhere, where people move from?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Ms. Young.

Thanks for that information. I guess I would select the ones that apply and leave out the ones that don’t. There’s a couple of them mentioned here, the fuel and electricity. I think our funding, the Minister said about $47 million to provide for community government operations and

maintenance costs. What was the increase in that amount due to these factors?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The forced growth funding, community government operations and maintenance funding went up by $1.37 million; water and sewer funding operations, $1.2 million; water and sewer funding classification, $413,000; grants in lieu of property taxes, $223,000; Collective Agreement increases, year one and two, $338,000; Property Tax Revenue Grant Program, $119,000.

That’s all I had. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Page 6-21, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, community operations, operations expenditure summary, $2.483 million. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Just one last question with regard to those. Yellowknife obviously seems to be a bit of a magnet for people from across the NWT for people who choose to move somewhere. Are some of these increases going to Yellowknife in recognition of that?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Ms. Young.

I’ll leave it at that. I’m not worried about the amounts too much right here.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Mr. Nadli.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Just a question again in terms of community operations. At this point, it’s fairly consistent practice that the department works very well with communities in terms of delivering water services to most communities. I just wanted to know, there’s one community in particular that’s very interested in wild water, of course, by going into the subsurface and then piping the water from underground. What’s the department’s stand on it? Is there a policy? Are there health-related concerns? What’s the department’s perspective on that?

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. Mr. Williams.