Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will refer that to Deputy Minister Williams. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister. Mr. Williams.

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

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I was a bit worried about that. I will just consider what I am going to do about that. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. O'Reilly. Further comments or questions on page 323? Mr. Vanthuyne.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The department can correct me if I am wrong in asking this question in this division, but I think this is okay. The description says this division is also responsible for the assessment of all land and improvements in the Northwest Territories. My question is relative to the mandate document item 3.1.2 where we state, "We will support community-based planning to help make land available for the construction of affordable housing."

In my former political life as a councillor for the city of Yellowknife, I know that the city had made an application to the department for a greater land application, in fact, for this purpose, to make more land available so that the city can do better long-term planning, in most part to support affordable housing. I wonder if the department can maybe provide some explanation as to why, to date, the greater land applications for the capital city do not pass and that the city is in fact in a position where they have to continually apply for piecemealed properties or piecemeal pieces of land on an as-and-when basis, rather than accepting the greater land applications. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Vanthuyne. Minister.

I will refer that to Ms. Young. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister. Ms. Young.

Thank you, Ms. Young.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It seems that the Minister of Lands got off the hook yesterday. It is the same Minister…can't we just get -- no, I'm kidding.

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Those will be my questions. I appreciate the response. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Vanthuyne. Anything further? Seeing nothing. I'll call the page. Municipal and Community Affairs, community governance, operations expenditure summary, activity total, $2,262,000. Agreed?

Committee agrees. We will move on to community operations. The activity total is on page 326, but we will consider the detail beginning on page 327. Questions on page 327, community operations, grants, contributions and transfers. I want to thank the PA grade six class for joining us. I hope you have a good time watching our exciting proceedings. Do we have any comments or questions on page 327? Seeing none. Moving on to -- oh, Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. So I notice that there is a contribution that took place in 2014-15, Management of drinking water in the NWT for $50,000, but there's no further funding provided for that purpose. Was that money that we received from another order of government, or are we continuing to support the function in some other way? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. O'Reilly. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's a reduction, but we do support the community in other ways. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister. Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I'm sure the Minister can probably guess my next questions, but so what are the ways that we actually support communities in protecting drinking water, if we're not allocating $50,000 for it anymore? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. O'Reilly. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, this was money that was to help the communities as they applied for water licenses, and they do have some money through the money we provide to them. So we provide them with some technical assistance and some administrative assistance, and I can assure the Member that the quality of the drinking water across the Northwest Territories, with the work that the communities have done building their own water treatment plants, is very good, and they've done a really good job with that. It was for water licenses, and they use the money that they have now, and we support them with our regional and headquarters staff. Thank you, Mr. Chair.