Thank you, Mr. Chair. The employees are within corporate management to remove that perceived or real conflict of interest within the water resources divisions or the water resource officers in the regions. That keeps them separate from the operational side.

They report to corporate management for all administration, human resources, and financial matters. They report to the chair of the Water Board for the business of the board. The department does not get involved in the business of the board. As for transferring them to their own entities, such as other boards, as the Member knows, we are currently looking at the Waters Act through our legislative initiatives. It is one topic that was discussed. At this point in time, due to economies of scale, really, the Inuvialuit Water Board is not interested in creating their own entity where they would have to get their own payroll system; they'd have to have their own overhead, and they're currently in GNWT leased space. If they had an increased cost, which we estimate they would, they would simply come back to the GNWT for additional resources. As the Member said, we received money through devolution for the funding of the board, but if there are increased costs, those would be costs to the GNWT. Thank you, Mr. Chair.