Thank you. To the Member for Yellowknife Centre to help clarify that.

Oh, that's okay. I mean, what I'm getting at is there's a big division there, and it seems like five people are there, and they're working with a bunch of people. And I would almost go to say is would the Minister agree that policy and regulations could be worked on, designed, reviewed, and talked about anywhere in the Northwest Territories?

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Mr. Chair, I think I've already identified that this work is already underway. I think the Member knows the answer to his question, and I absolutely value what he is getting at here, and he is getting at that he would like to see more positions in communities, and I understand that. In addition, there's also a remote work policy as well that I hope that we as a government can use. I can also speak to the fact that ITI is also in the process of using that for positions that were traditionally in Yellowknife and people wanted to be able to work from communities, and so I would like to take the opportunity to kind of celebrate them in that respect, that they're willing to work with this policy in order to increase employment outside of Yellowknife as well. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go back to the Member from Yellowknife Centre.

Thank you. Taking off on one of the questions my good colleague from Boot Lake had said, maybe I could clarify, how much oil and gas is being developed in the North Slave region at this particular time?

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, as far as I am aware -- and I hope somebody will poke me if I'm wrong, but we don't have any oil and gas in the Yellowknife region.

Thank you. I'm going to go back to the Member from Yellowknife Centre.

Perhaps in a sentence or two, maybe we could explain why we have such a division -- significant division here in the headquarters region of North Slave if there's nothing being developed from the oil and gas perspective? In a sentence or two. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go back to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, the -- it's not strictly a oil and gas division. It's mineral resources -- mineral and petroleum resource development. And so they are not strictly focused on petroleum or oil and gas. They are focused on all minerals. We have a total of 29 staff working in the Beaufort Delta out of a total of 104 working at headquarters. But those are total numbers across the board. The 104 also includes our economic development, our corporate management, our tourism and parks people, everybody. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go back to the Member from Yellowknife Centre.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think the Member for Boot Lake asked me to ask this next question. For sake and respect of the House, I won't ask it. But I'll let him explain what unicorns mean, I guess. Okay.

Well I'll leave it at that. I mean, the point of the little exercise here for the last eight minutes was really trying to get at the fact that we could do work there. It's symbolic there. The work is there. The oil and gas is there. I think the Minister understands the issue. And I would support us finding ways to put people in those types of regions, including assistant deputy ministers, deputy ministers, and directors. Those positions have a real impact in communities. I mean, by this policy philosophy, I mean, we could wrap all of these jobs up and put them in headquarter, and I'm not fighting for that in any method, but I mean, we could justify them just as simple as that. So I'd say here's a real opportunity to demonstrate you support regions, and this could help. So whatever way they could do, it would be nice not just for the Member of Boot Lake, but I think it helps the diversity of economic opportunity throughout the North. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll take that as a comment. I'm going to go to the Member from Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Can the Minister tell me when was the last time this was an evaluation done of the mining incentive program. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we're just going to try to pull that in -- 2020. There we go, perfect. Thank you. And if the Member would like, we'd be more than happy to share that with her as well. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to the Member from Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That was going to be my next question. But can you clarify, has this evaluation been made public or is it -- is your intention to confidentially share it with MLAs? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'll go to the Minister.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, as long as there's nothing -- you know, no personal identifiers or something like that that couldn't be public disclosed, I'm always happen to be as transparent as possible as long as we're not infringing on a previous commitment made to the participants or anything like that. But I would like the opportunity just to ensure, but absolutely, so long as there's nothing wonky in there that I'm not aware of, then I would love the opportunity to share it.

Thank you. I'll go back to the Member from Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is great news. I'd love to dig into that. But in the meantime, can the Minister tell us whether this figure of an 8 to 1 multiplier -- economic multiplier out of the mining incentive program, whether that comes from that evaluation and whether that figure comes from self-reporting of participants in the mining incentive program or some independent economic analysis. Thank you, Mr. Chair.