Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I would say that it could be different from different communities. But certainly, you would want to ensure that the community is aligned in that request and ultimately working together because then you have certainly a better product at th

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, it's certainly up to the community, and we're always happy to lend some suggestions and some expertise from our staff, and we can certainly support through a contribution agreement. But ultimately it is up to the community. Thank you.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. We have an excellent relationship with Tourism NWT who does wonderful work. We also have -- sorry, and I should toot their horn a little bit. They've done a tremendous amount of work promoting even on things like Good Morning America. And as soon a

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  No, Mr. Chair.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So what was done was we worked with communities to hire security for the parks in order to further support park users that were there because of the evacuation. So we will continue working with MACA and with Indigenous governments should the need a

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, we had a number of communities evacuated and the -- our parks ended up being used as evacuation spots and ended up seeing a significant increase in incidents in our parks in the territory. Thank you.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So that's the -- that we call -- so the SCAP funding is agriculture funding. It was afforded to ITI by the federal government, and that funding is for different agriculture projects across the territory on an application base. It is very well tappe

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, we've got the SEED funding program, which is a grant program and affords grants to people who are looking to invest in business ventures through ITI. We also have community futures. Now, community futures is a loan type program. And

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. And, Mr. Chair, I cannot explain to you how much I'm wishing that Prosper NWT was still sitting next to me. But, Mr. Chair -- and I'm going to very uneloquently describe this, but essentially those are their investments into loans, and so it's not

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, we're working closely with Diavik. Diavik has their My Path program where they identify, you know, who the worker is, what their skill set is, and what their intentions post closure are. So some people intend to retire. Some people i

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Absolutely, the goal is to see the fish plant generate more and more revenue every year like a business. It is not the GNWT's intention to forever operate and own a fish plant. So what we really want to do is to be able to show that it's profitable

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, certainly last year we had some unexpected things happen. First of all, we had an evacuation at the end of the summer where 70 percent of the territory was evacuated and right around Great Slave Lake. The other part of that is we had s

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would love to pass to assistant deputy minister Cyr.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, industry, tourism and investment does have a robust program to support people who want to get into fishing in the Northwest Territories, that they are able to support with equipment that people might need. And then in addition to tha

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  The short answer, yes, this is something that is on top of their other duties for sure. But the other side of this is because we are currently the national chair for committee on internal trade, we are also able to pull on the CIT budget in order to -- we're not expected to fund