Thanks, Mr. Chair. I accept what the Minister said, but maybe that item of $3 million needs to be broken down in the next main estimates or through the business plan to provide a little bit more information. I will double check the business plan on that myself, as well. I am sure the Minister is getting all prepared for this review of arts strategy with his colleague, the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. I want to move on to the agricultural strategy. I have seen there are a number of departments that have funding under the agricultural strategy. How is the implementation going to be coordinated, and how will performance successes be measured? Who is going to be doing that? Thanks, Mr. Chair.
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Wally Schumann Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Department of ITI is leading the working group on this thing. We will be having them monitor the evaluation that will be following every step of the way on this going forward so that we will be able to track all the progress on the program. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Thanks, Mr. Chair. Is there an evaluation framework that is available? Can that be shared with committee? Thanks, Mr. Chair.
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Wally Schumann Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The answer is yes. We will hopefully have that finalized by the end of March. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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February 25th, 2018
Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Thanks, Mr. Chair. Perfect. The Minister is actually anticipating all my questions. The number for Growing Forward on page 216, the $488,000, is that GNWT's contribution towards Growing Forward, or does some of that include federal money and how much? Thanks, Mr. Chair.
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Wally Schumann Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I have said in my earlier comments to Member Thompson, this is our equity portion of Growing Forward, the new CAP program. The federal funding is totally separate, above that. That will be in the grants and contributions that show later in our binder. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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The Chair R.J. Simpson
Thank you, Minister. Just for clarification, that is under the "Work performed on behalf of others." On page 231, it shows the Growing Forward federal contributions. Mr. O'Reilly.
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Thanks, Mr. Chair. I just wasn't sure what the GNWT contribution was. Now I understand that. I want to move on. I think this is the part of ITI that deals with socioeconomic agreements. Can I just confirm that with the Minister?
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Wally Schumann Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, this is not the section. That will be under the minerals section when we get to that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
I will save that line until we get to that section. I think I heard the Minister say, shown on page 218, that there are a number of staffing changes that are happening within this activity. I will give a couple of examples. There are two fewer people in headquarters. The Sahtu is losing a position. I think I heard the Minister say, as well, that some other petroleum advisor positions are being phased out. Why are petroleum positions found in this section of the budget and not in the next one, which is called "minerals and petroleum resources"? Thanks, Mr. Chair.
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Wally Schumann Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. My understanding is this was historically here because it was under the Economic Development Diversification Fund there, so maybe that's something we can look at going down the road. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Thanks, Mr. Chair. Well, it might be kind of an academic discussion because I think these positions are disappearing. I'm just kind of surprised that you've got positions that are related to petroleum in an economic diversification and business support section, rather than in the minerals and petroleum resources. So are there any other staff that do work on oil and gas that are in this activity area for ITI? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
That's interesting to hear. So can I ask just about, while we're on fisheries revitalization, what is the department doing with regards to commercial fishing on this side of the lake, Yellowknife in particular? Is the department doing anything to help support the fishing industry here, in Yellowknife? Thank you, Mr. Chair.