Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Minister Ramsay.
Debates of Feb. 25th, 2014
This is page numbers 3905 – 3976 of the Hansard for the 17th Assembly, 5th Session. The original version can be accessed on the Legislative Assembly's website or by contacting the Legislative Assembly Library. The word of the day was year.
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Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Daryl Dolynny Range Lake
So, I guess the question is: There is no plan for an energy charrette in this upcoming year; it’s just a descriptor making reference to a previous activity in another year. Is that correct?
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Robert Bouchard
Thank you for that clarification. Anybody else? Page 12-22, activity summary, energy, grants and contributions. Agreed?
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Robert Bouchard
Page 12-25, activity summary, tourism and parks, operations expenditure summary, $13.783 million. Agreed?
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Robert Bouchard
Page 12-26, activity summary, tourism and parks, grants and contributions, $5.558 million. Mr. Dolynny.
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Daryl Dolynny Range Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. If could maybe get a little bit more clarification with this $100,000 for the convention bureau. Thank you.
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
David Ramsay Kam Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This comes to us from the Economic Opportunities Strategy. It’s a new initiative that we have. What it is, is it’s going to be a person that’s going to be working at Northwest Territories Tourism and their sole purpose is going to be to attract conventions and business-type meetings to the Northwest Territories. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Daryl Dolynny Range Lake
Is this going to be a stand-alone organization? Where is it located and that kind of stuff? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
David Ramsay Kam Lake
Mr. Chairman, that position is going to be fully integrated with NWT Tourism. Thank you.
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 24th, 2014
Daryl Dolynny Range Lake
Is it being, I guess, funnelled or funded with numbers or monies from main estimates, or is there a taxation component? I know there was talk about a potential convention tax. Is this attributing in any way, shape or form of a potential future convention tax? Thank you.
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
David Ramsay Kam Lake
Mr. Chairman, there has been no discussion about the possibility of a tax. They will fund this. It’s a funded initiative. Again, it came as a result of the Economic Opportunities Strategy. Thank you.
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
David Ramsay Kam Lake
It’s appropriated for this year. There are plans to appropriate it for next year and then, going forward from there, we will have to see how successful that effort has been. Thank you.
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Daryl Dolynny Range Lake
Thank you. Continuing on with my questions on this page regarding the sport hunt outfitter marketing support, the $300,000, this is a repeat from last year. Given what I know about in the industry, we know that the sport hunting outfitters are literally on life support. This $300,000, albeit it’s nice to see that we are able to help them diversify, clearly I don’t believe it will help them stay afloat much longer. What are the long-term plans that we can do for the sport hunting outfitters? Thank you.
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 14-17(5): Deferral Of Minerals And Petroleum Resources Activity, Defeated
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Peter Vician
Mr. Chair, the Sport Hunt Operator Marketing Fund that was established was targeting two particular areas of outfitting. One is the polar bear hunt that was impacted by restrictions by the U.S. import ban on polar bear and the other one, of course, was with regard to supporting our outfitters that relied on the tourism operations related to the barren ground caribou program. We continue and propose to continue to support, for the coming year, the operators in both those areas, Inuvik region and North Slave region, predominantly this is where they exist, and provide them with funding to continue to assist them in the care and maintenance of operations to the limits that we can. Some of the wind down efforts that they are doing and some of the transition work that some of them are pursuing make a degree of flexibility in the program funds that will continue. Candidly, all of these markets are in a downturn as a result of the restrictions that are currently in place. Therefore, they are subject to further review. Through the Minister, we will continue to do that review with our partner, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and report to committee in the future. These funds are by no means being recommended for appropriation indeterminately. It is intended to be an appropriation for this coming year to help, again, those operators as best we can through this transition. Thank you, Mr. Chair.