Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the $50,000 in travel is there to support the position. It is also there to support what we think may be requirements for other folks in the GNWT to travel to support the activity. It may also be used to help pay for travel for folks who we may want to bring in from Ottawa to educate them on the realities of the NWT. One of the issues that we are finding is that there are folks in the federal government and elsewhere in Ottawa and in southern Canada who have influence; their understanding of the realities of the North are limited and somewhat dated, in particular the federal public service, who seem to think, when they come up with programming, they don't get the difference, that we are unlike in the South where they generally have a reserve system for Indigenous people, that we have integrated programming and services in the NWT. So we need to take opportunities to educate them. Part of the travel and some of that money in the travel budget would be used to undertake that endeavour, as well. Thank you.
Mr. Aumond on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters (Reversion)
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Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters (Reversion)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters (Reversion)
February 21st, 2018
Aumond
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