Thank you, Member for Yellowknife North. Minister of Lands.

Thank you. I apologize for the delay. The government has, right now, $649,114,421.47. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Minister. Member for Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Can I just clarify that $649,000,000, those are the securities held by the Department of Lands, and that doesn't also include those under water licences, ENR?

Thank you, Member for Yellowknife North. Minister of Lands.

That there is what the GNWT has together, like ENR and Lands. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister. Member for Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Perhaps if I could get the Minister to provide me a breakdown of what is held versus Lands and ENR? I will have questions on this when we get to speak to the Minister of ENR about the overlapping role of securities administration in those departments.

Thank you, Member for Yellowknife North. Minister of Lands.

Thank you. For Lands, what we hold right now is $89,573,416.47 for the Department of Lands. ENR's total is $559,541,005. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister. Member for Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Will the Minister of Lands commit to reviewing the Project Assessment Policy and to clarify the department's role in project assessments in relation to the work that ENR does as well?

Thank you, Member for Yellowknife North. Minister of Lands.

Thank you, Madam Chair. It's a relatively new policy, so we can come back to committee. I am not going to make a commitment, but I will make a commitment that we will come back to committee to have further conversations on this. Like I said, it's a relatively new policy. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Minister. Member for Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess my reason for requesting it is because securities administration in the GNWT, as we have seen with Cameron Hills, as we've seen with other departments, it seems to be all over the place in this kind of patchwork process. Will the Minister of Lands pursue a consolidated system to responsibly manage all of our securities, identify securities by project, and guarantee timely postings -- this is multiple questions. Madam Chair, will the Department of Lands conduct a review of all the securities in the GNWT and look to set out one coherent policy for the GNWT?

Thank you, Member for Yellowknife North. Minister of Lands.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We are presently working with OROGO and ENR and Lands on this. We have already started the process to streamline or try to make sure we do it properly. We are also, I think, maybe, can say that the project assessment function, we're also working on that as well presently. I think that was your previous question, so I was able to clarify that. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Minister. Are there any other questions? Member for Frame Lake.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I want to thank my colleague from Yellowknife North for stealing a number of my questions, but I will try to do a mop-up operation here. For land use planning, can someone tell me how much we're spending on land use planning in the Wek'eezhii Management Area for 2020-2021? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Member for Frame Lake. Minister of Lands.

Thank you. In 2019-2020, we spent $647,000, and Infrastructure spent $79,000 for a total of $753,000. For the fiscal year coming up, we budgeted $497,000, and Infrastructure has budgeted $79,000, for a total of $576,000. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Minister. Member for Frame Lake.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I believe in land use planning. It's what got me up here in 1985; I was the land use planning coordinator for the Dene Nation. Why are we spending our money to do land use planning in the Wek'eezhii Management Area? Clearly, this is a federal land rights agreement implementation issue. The feds should be paying for this. Why are we paying for this and not the feds? This is not the first time I've raised this. Thanks, Madam Chair.