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

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Like we want to do, we are trying to anticipate and work with the communities to help build capacity, so when the project goes ahead they'll be ready and we'll be ready, and it would work in the best interests if the communities. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the response. The Diavik Socio-Economic Agreement funding of $50,000: it was my understanding that the company had done work to do away with the Diavik Community Advisory Board, is that body still working and if so can the Minister or staff tell me whether that board is still functioning? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

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

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Member is correct. The board is no longer in operation, but in lieu of it we meet with the communities with regards to Diavik. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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

Thanks, Mr. Chair. So I'm just trying to understand this a little bit better. So the money appears in the contribution section, so to me that sort of indicates that we're giving the money out to a third party, but what I hear the Minister saying is that the money's actually used to support GNWT staff going to meetings. Am I misinterpreting or misunderstanding this in some way? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Ms. Archibald

Thank you, Ms. Archibald. Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the answer. I think I understand much better now what the funding's actually used for. So I just want to move on to the Mining Incentive Program. Do we actually have any way to measure how effective this money has been in say the discovery of new properties? Have any of the properties that are being explored as a result of this program, have any of them actually gone into production? How do we evaluate the effectiveness of the investment that's made here? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

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

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Right now we primarily evaluate it or based on the -- as we said, we spent a dollar, we get the industry to spend -- it's resulted in the industry spending $2.7. We've only had this program going for two years, so it's too early for it to result in having a brand new mine developed. It is bringing in money for exploration which is the backbone of mining. The recipients have to provide the reports and in our prospectors grub stake, two prospectors have sold projects to junior mining companies. That will certainly be another indicator of success. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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

Thanks, Mr. Chair. That sounds helpful. I'm just wondering though, does the department think it would be a good idea to develop some sort of criteria or way to measure the success of this program? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

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

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe the fact that it's oversubscribed and the fact that it's resulted in increased spending and as an industry we already have a guideline that for every dollar you spend on geoscience it results in $5 on exploration and when it goes to development it's about $150. We think that the criteria we have now is sufficient. We only have $400,000, so we don’t want to spend a lot of money developing additional criteria. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Recognizing time, I'll allow one more question there, Mr. O'Reilly.

I think I'll pass for now, Mr. Chair, because I've got some other things I'd like to explore on this page. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. O'Reilly. Recognizing Mr. Nadli.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just wanted to get some clarity questions. So my question relates to on page 244 it says, "client service and community relations," and I think last year it was a $1,109,000 and it's decreased to $1,055.000. Maybe the Minister could explain just the reduction and just explain the nature of this initiative plans for this and community relations, whether it's focused strictly on industry or is it as compared to the regulatory participation that we expect from a First Nations group? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is an area where we work with industry and also the communities and we provide a liaison function and also I guess a navigator kind of role I would think. Thank you, Mr. Chair.