At this point, yes, the lottery funding will be used to pay for lottery staffing; however, this will be reviewed with the Department of Finance to ensure that it is the best action moving forward.

Masi. Oral questions. Member for Nahendeh.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I thank the Minister for her answer. That gives a clearer picture in this. In this Minister's statement, she talked about how all the proceeds from lotteries will continue to be directed towards sport and recreation programming. Does that include multi-sport games? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The multi-sport games, actually, we still have it in our mains, and the budget is $500,000 that we have in our mains, separate from the lottery funding.

Masi. Oral questions. Member for Mackenzie Delta.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, a follow-up to my Member's statement. I have a couple of questions for the Minister of MACA. I would like to ask the Minister: how are we applying modern research and technology to some of the longstanding flooding and erosion problems that challenge the community of Aklavik? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Masi. Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Currently, the maintenance, the repair, and the replacement of roads actually is the responsibility of the Hamlet of Aklavik. The Department of Municipal and Community Affairs supports the community government to prepare capital plans, and within those capital plans, we identify climate change as an area of concern, and then the community actually decides what they're going to do. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Will the Minister look into these much-needed repairs with the department and the community to see if we can come up with the solution for this erosion?

Like I said, the Hamlet of Aklavik is responsible for their maintenance and their repair of their roads. The Hamlet has spent the last three to five years focusing on the road upgrades and drainage work. They have also hired a contractor within their community to look at the effects of climate change.

The community has done a lot of great work with the drainage in the community through the capital plan, but to put more material along the riverbanks which is stopping erosion, there are a couple of areas where there is no repair along the bank to slow down the process of erosion. To put this material down, there is more funding needed to put this in place. Will the department ensure that the community has enough funding to do this work, hopefully before the spring?

In April 2015, the federal government established a National Disaster Mitigation Program with small communities; communities can apply to deal with the effects of climate change or other natural disasters. In the fall of 2016, the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs, actually on behalf of Aklavik, we submitted a funding request for $255,000 to create a mitigation plan that will identify the measures designed to reduce or eliminate the impact of shoreline erosion. This funding is expected to be confirmed in the next couple of weeks, and once the approval is in, we will start work early in 2017-18.

Masi. Oral questions. Member for Sahtu.

Masi. Minister for Northwest Territories Housing Corporation.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am making the assumption that the 2009 survey that the MLA is referring to is the Federal Needs Assessment Survey that was done. They do it every five years, so there was one done in 2009. I believe there was one done in 2014 as well. Some of that information will be taken into consideration; however, this survey is different than the Federal Housing Engagement Survey. This survey is to identify from the residents of the Northwest Territories, what they see for their own specific communities. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

My next question is: once this information is compiled, or this survey is compiled with the head office, will it be finalized in concert with the regional office to make sure that it is a regional survey plan as identified by the prior needs and suggestions?

As part of doing this survey we have committed that we would provide the findings of this survey to all municipal governments and all Aboriginal governments. They will have a What We Heard report identifying exactly what was said within their own communities.

If the regional offices are going to have a forum or have a gathering on the final draft of a regional review, would some of the community leaders such as the mayors or the presidents of land corporations or the chiefs of the bands be invited to have some input on the final regional draft?

Currently, our commitment is that we would provide the findings of the survey to the Aboriginal and municipal governments. If they wanted to provide some feedback to us, we would be open to receiving it. However, we have asked each municipal government and each Aboriginal government to fill in the survey, not only independently but as a group, individual groups. We have them identified within the survey, so we will be taking the feedback from the municipalities and the Aboriginal governments and we will be considering that impact as well within our survey. Will I be doing another open house on this? No, Mr. Speaker. We need to get to work. It is time. The survey is finished. We need to get down and do the work now.

Masi. Oral questions. Member for Sahtu.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My last question here is compiled information is very valuable on the preplanning of the objectives needed for the region. Would the Minister consider sharing this information with some of the regional organizations to develop a bilateral approach for the needs on a possible federal submission? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Once all of the results in the survey are compiled, which we are in the process of doing right at this moment, we will be tabling the document. At that point, it can be used for whatever people would like to use it for.

Masi. Oral questions. Member for Kam Lake.