Page 14-14, information item, directorate, active positions.

Page 14-17, activity summary, planning and coordination, operations expenditure summary, $5.850 million. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’ve got a couple of questions here. I’m just looking down at the narrative here on page 16, and I see the land use planning and sustainability unit, the land use sustainability unit, the land use planning unit. That’s three different sections or divisions or whatever.

The land use planning and sustainability unit and then we have the land use sustainability, then we have land use planning. There’s something that is just mind warping about this. Do we actually have, like, a manager or a director or something in each of these units and why the heck don’t we get rid of one of them or two of them? Get rid of two of them. I think this might go towards Mr. Dolynny’s question.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Deputy Minister Warren.

Thank you, Mr. Warren. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I did look back at the organizational chart here, and again, I’d say there’s room for some efficiencies. I’m a big proponent of sustainably, I’m sure the Minister knows, and the land use planning, but just in terms of the use of our positions, I’m a bit perplexed here, although you can subtly define the differences between them. I bet the coordination, I bet the results would be a lot better if you combine them in terms of effectiveness and efficiency, but I’ll leave that to the Minister. I’ll throw that out there as maybe that’s something more that we can chat about during a briefing on this new department as we get close to that time.

On the land use planning whatever it’s called, section, I see government-led land use planning initiatives in the Wek’eezhii Inuvialuit Settlement Region or the South Slave in the last sentence there. Rather than Wek’eezhii, do we mean Tlicho there? Sorry, Akaitcho, because Wek’eezhii seems like it would be covered by the Tlicho which has their own land use plan for their region. I’m just wondering again. I want to make sure we’re well organized there.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister McLeod.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. The Member is correct. We’ll have to make that change and put Tlicho.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Mr. Bromley.

Finally, just on the project assessment branch, I think this follows up a little bit on our original discussion here earlier today. Coordinates interdepartmental participation and

environmental assessment processes and, eventually, and consensus building. Again, I thought each Minister was going to have and retain their own perspectives here, but this seems to mean that there’s going to be one piece of input that’s a consensus, so I’m just wondering what exactly that means in this process.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Deputy Minister Warren.

Thank you, Mr. Warren. Committee, we’re on page 14-17, activity summary, planning and coordination, operations expenditure summary, $5.850 million.

Page 14-18, activity summary, planning and coordination, grants and contributions, $680,000. Mr. Bromley.

I see contributions for Aboriginal groups for consultation and supportive decisions on disposition of lands and again for Aboriginal groups in North Slave and South Slave regions supportive land use planning processes. Obviously, we need to be consulting with other people that are not Aboriginal or don’t have Aboriginal treaty rights. Where is the budget to support consultation in those areas? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Deputy Minister Warren.

Thank you, Mr. Warren. Mr. Bromley.

I disagree. I’m talking about exactly the same thing. I’m talking about funding those without Aboriginal treaty rights so that they have the ability to feed into the process exactly as

this is being done for Aboriginal groups. In fact, one of the difficulties with our process, environmental review processes, for example, and other processes, such as the proposed Intergovernmental Council and so on, is the lack of recognition of the need for a budget in this area.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister McLeod.