Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Kalgutkar.

Thank you, Mr. Kalgutkar. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, just to be fully accurate here, what Mr. Kalgutkar meant, I think, was that this will catch us up to the point where we will continue to subsidize at $11 million to enable the Power Corporation to do their business. I guess I’ll leave it at that. The will of committee and interest of committee and having those dollars moved from subsidies into more efficient ways of addressing the cost of living for our residents has once again been ignored. I just want to make that clear with this.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. I’ll take that as a statement. Committee, page 5-14, activity summary, deputy minister’s office, grants and contributions. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just a brief comment here. I had the same question with regard to the NWT Power Corporation general rate application funding. I am, I guess, pleased to see that this is the last year that we’re spending this money, but I want to reiterate that, like Mr. Bromley, I think we ought to be putting a larger focus on trying to decrease our cost of living, and I will have a question when we get to the page where we talk about the subsidy that we give to our residents in terms of electricity. But it seems to me that we have gone from $15 million to $9.5 million and now to slightly less than $3 million, and that money, that subsidy that we were providing for residents has just kind of melted into our general revenues and kind of disappeared and I don’t get a sense that we are putting enough effort into trying to reduce cost of living. No question there, but I wanted to make the comment.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Committee, we’re looking at page 5-14, activity summary, deputy minister’s office, grants and contributions, $86.532 million.

Page 5-15, information item, deputy minister’s office. Any questions?

Page 5-17, activity summary, fiscal policy, operations expenditure summary, $40.129 million. Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Under this fiscal policy we know that the NWT tax policies and monitoring come under this policy. Can we get a bit of an elaboration on what exact tax policies are monitored within fiscal policy.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Deputy Minister Aumond.

I appreciate the deputy minister’s response to that. Would taxes such as tobacco, fuel, payroll, does that come under the same fiscal policy?

Was that a no?

I appreciate the deputy minister clarifying that. I’ll use that in conjunction when we do this next year. I think, the net fiscal benefit monitoring falls under this policy, and I believe my question has to do with the amount of benefit that is being transferred to the Aboriginal parties from resource revenues, and I believe, according to the budget address and according to the activity, I believe it’s $15 million being set aside in this

budget. Can we get an idea, the $15 million that is in here, what percentage of that is of our resource revenues for the time period?

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That’s the estimate that we have booked for Aboriginal government’s share of the net fiscal benefit that’s flowing to us through the agreement to collect all resource royalties; 50 percent goes to the federal government, the remaining 50 percent, when we look at that, of that, 25 percent of what’s left as agreed to go to the Aboriginal governments, and that’s what we anticipate based on past estimates that will accrue over the course of this coming year starting April 1st .

I’m just trying to figure out what $15 million represents here. According to the information we have here and talked about in the House and we’re hearing the term 25 percent, is 25 percent of the resource revenues $15 million? I just want to make sure I’m dealing percentage and numbers.

If we start with the global figure of we are going to collect roughly in total $120 million, 50 percent of that goes to the federal government. The remaining $60 million, we’ve agreed 25 percent would go to the Aboriginal governments, which gets you to the $15 million, leaving about $45 million coming to us free and clear, of which we’re putting 25 percent of that $45 million into the Heritage Fund. Thank you.

Great, thank you. Again, clarity is always the important key here. Just for the sake of understanding, under the grants and contribution transfers definitely a large part of that is this transfer to the Aboriginal signatories. I know this is maybe a book adjustment, but when is the actual physical money being given to the signatories physically? Thank you.