Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks to the Minister. Just on the timber permits and licences, I know we’ve signed a recent forest management agreement and the Minister has mentioned that stumpage fees will be modest. With this activity, will there be any likely revenue in this area in the foreseeable future? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Deputy Minister Campbell.

Thank you, deputy minister. Next on my list I have Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just a couple questions on this page here. When it comes to the hunting and fishing licences, we know that there is the Wildlife Act and regulations are pursuant, as well as devolution implementation, as the Minister reminds us here, so how are these two new things that we’re going to be involved with, how does that change how we set hunting and fishing licences and suspected revenues for this fiscal year?

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It won’t change what revenues we have projected. We control hunting licences and the federal government controls fishing licences, and there has been no change in fishing licences of any substantive nature for many, many years. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. Dolynny.

Mr. Chair, under the Environment Fund net revenue of $150,000, this is a change from last year where we didn’t have an entry in the revised estimates and I’m assuming that the main estimates of $246,000 prevailed.

Can the Minister indicate what took place, why we don’t have a revised estimate and has there been a change in net revenue for the Environment Fund?

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Director Magrum.

Thank you, Ms. Magrum. Mr. Dolynny.

I appreciate the response here. The fees for water and soil analysis, this is a brand new entry here for 2014-2015 at $524,000. How did the department come up with that number? What was their basis and guidelines for $524,000?

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This was based on a multi-year average of the figures we got from AANDC. Thank you.

Are those numbers publicly available? Thank you.

If there’s interest to share with committee, we could do that.

I just want to make sure what the fees we’ve got slated for the residents of the

Northwest Territories are indeed in line with what we acquired through AANDC, so again just a baseline. If the department wants to provide a baseline, I’ll definitely welcome it as a Member here, but I’ll leave it up to the Minister to decide.

On the subject of water use fees at $80,000, on what basis did the department set those fees at? Again, is this another number they got from AANDC?

Mr. Chairman, it’s the same process that was used with AANDC that we had talked about previously. Thank you.

So I’ll repeat my last question and add it to this question here. Is there any background information to support anything publicly that’s available that we can actually validate these fees that we’re acquiring here as a territory vis-à-vis what we received from AANDC? Thank you.

We’ll provide to committee the methodology that was used in the negotiations with AANDC to determine the breakdown of these different line items. Thank you.

I appreciate the Minister’s response on that. Again, these are new entries, so I think we need to get a baseline. What we’re acquiring here as we’re passing this budget, we also have administration services at $32,000, again with no previous history whatsoever. Can the Minister describe what this entry is all about?

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Director Magrum.