Thank you. A similar question to vendor direct sellers licence. Can the Minister explain exactly what that line is deriving and the last time that fee structure has been reviewed? Thank you.

Thank you. As far as the last time a lot of these have been reviewed, I mean, we’d have to go back and gather that

information. Once we get the information for all these particular issues, we’ll share with the Members of the committee. On this particular one, there was a slight increase in the number of licences that were issued. Thank you.

Can I get the detail on the fee structure? I wasn’t quite clear in the Minister’s action and the last time it was reviewed? Thank you.

I’m not sure exactly what the fee structure is. I don’t have that information with me. As far as the last time it was reviewed, I said before that I’m not sure of that, either. So we will gather the information and share it with the Member.

Thank you to the Minister for that. Collection agency licences. How many collection agencies are there here in the Northwest Territories and what’s the licence fee based on? Thank you.

Thank you. A lot of these are small amounts in the work that we do. I do have some detail. However, the detail that the Member is asking for needs a little bit more work on my part and I will commit to gathering all of the detail for all of the Member’s questions, the ones that he’s asked and the one that he’s about to ask and we’ll get that information back to him.

That’s a very thorough answer and I appreciate that from the Minister. Could the Minister help me understand what plan review fees is, at $15,000? There’s a significant drop. It rose from $8,000 to $31,000 in the last fiscal cycle and then it significantly dropped to the $15,000. So I’m just trying to get a sense. It seems quite a turbulent bit of a fee prediction there, if anything very challenging to manage to predict it. So perhaps he could help me understand what fee review is, for my education as well as the House and the public, and what it’s based on. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Schauerte.

What is the fee structure based on?

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We’ll put some information together for the Member and he’ll have all the information he needs on the questions that he’s asked.

Land lease. Would the Minister provide me the last time land leases were looked at? I’m looking for the information as to when the last time land fees or leasing fees were adjusted. How do we come about with a particular rate on charging those things?

The Member is asking for a lot of detail that I didn’t come prepared with because we were looking at the overall numbers. If the Member is looking for more detail, then I’ve committed to providing him with as much detail as he would like.

I’d be happy to accept that. It appears we’ve come to the end of the page.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Continuing with questions is Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just have a question with regard to the revenue on the line Joint Emergency Preparedness. We’re going from $90,000 to nil. Is that federal funding that we get and, if so, what was the $90,000 last year used for?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The $90,000 was money that we did receive from the federal government. Some of this I think we distributed to some communities to help with their emergency action plans. Joint Emergency Preparedness is the name of the program. This program was discontinued by the federal government and they’re looking at replacing it with a program called the Disaster Mitigation Program now. We’re not quite sure of the details. We have some discussions with my federal counterpart, Mr. Lebel, and we’re hoping to get some information soon as far as what this program consists of and what kind of money we can expect to get. I will note that in our discussions with Mr. Lebel, we have told him that base-plus is the only type of funding that works for the NWT.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Page 6-9, Municipal and Community Affairs, information item, revenue summary.

Page 6-10, Municipal and Community Affairs, information item, active position summary.

Page 6-13, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, directorate, operations expenditure summary, $4.395 million. Ms. Bisaro.