Thank you, Mr. O'Reilly. Take that as a comment. Next we have Mr. Beaulieu.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I move that committee continues sitting beyond the hour of daily adjournment to conclude the item under consideration. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Motion is on the floor and has been distributed. Motion is in order and is nondebatable. Question has been called. All those in favour. All those opposed. Motion is carried.

---Carried

We will now continue on page 145. Deputy minister's office, grants, contributions and transfers. Are there any questions? Are we agreed?

That brings us to page 146. Deputy minister's office, active positions, information item. Any questions? Agreed?

Okay. That brings us back to page 144, deputy minister's office, operations expenditure summary, activity total, $92,440,000. Are we agreed?

Thank you. That brings us to page 148, fiscal policy, operations expenditure summary, activity total $42,278,000. We'll defer this page and go on to page 149, grants, contributions and transfers. Any questions? Are we agreed? Oh, Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. A couple of things here I wanted to pursue. Presumably this is the section where taxes are dealt with in some measure. I'm just wondering, the federal government made a commitment to increase the Northern Resident Tax Deduction. They didn't index it. I've raised that here in the House, and I know the Minister was just at a Finance Ministers' meeting in Vancouver, I think, on the weekend. So it just came to my mind that I should ask him, was there any movement towards indexing of the Northern Resident Tax Deduction at that meeting, and has he had an opportunity to work with his colleagues from Nunavut and Yukon? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. O'Reilly. Minister McLeod.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, there was no discussion on the indexing of the Northern Resident Deduction, but it is an issue that I should raise with my northern counterparts to see how we can address it. But it wasn't raised at this particular meeting. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Yes. I'm thinking that, if there could be a letter sent by the three Finance Ministers from the three territories, that might help get some attention of the federal Finance Minister. If our Finance Minister could also see fit to include something in the letter about the need for Canada Revenue Agency to tell Northern residents what the value of a flight out of here is, rather than us having to guess and then get audited continually, that would be really helpful. This is a really bothersome thing for folks here, and I'm hoping that the Minister can undertake to do some work on that because it's a real source of consternation, if not problems. So I'm wondering if he can undertake to take that on when he's dealing with this issue of indexing of the Northern Resident Tax Deduction as well? So how do we value -- CRA should just tell us what the value of those flights are. We shouldn't be just left guessing. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. O'Reilly. Minister McLeod.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I take the Member's point and I will commit to working with my counterparts from the northern regions to see how we can address this. We get together with our financial colleagues again I believe in December, and we'll have an opportunity through business plans, I think, to have further discussion. But I do commit to the Member that I'll keep this on the radar, and this is one that I will raise. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Any further questions on page 149? Ms. Green. Sorry, I didn't see your hand.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just a question of clarification. We've heard some discussion about the new NWT Child Benefit, but looking at this page, it doesn't look like it's new, or else it isn't added in here. I'm not sure which it is. So this is the one that's going to be coordinated with the Canada Child Benefit. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Ms. Green. Minister, or Mr. Kalgutkar.

Thank you, Mr. Kalgutkar. Ms. Green.

Thank you for that answer. Those are all my questions.

Thank you, Ms. Green. Any further questions, committee? Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks, Mr. Chair, and I apologize. I should have asked, the Northwest Territories Heritage Fund is on this page, and it's in our mandate that there's going to be a review of that legislation undertaken. I'm just wondering if the Minister can tell us when that is going to begin. Thank you, Mr. Chair.