Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. What the Member is seeing there, and the difference is the investment in the fish plant. So we have been working to build and open a fish plant in Hay River, and we are no longer needing that -- that's what is not represented there, is the fish pla

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, as a business owner who has actually dabbled in the SEED program, I certainly have my own ideas of how to improve the program. The program itself is not meant to be something that people apply for every year. It is meant to be a piec

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, nothing is off the table with the review. We intend to do a very wholistic review of the program from start to finish and everything in between. The program, as it currently stands, does have both of those things, and so that will be

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, we go out with an RFP to do a complete review of this program in April of this year. And with that, we will do a very robust review of the SEED program within the intent of releasing a new policy next year. Thank you.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we had some funding that was allocated to this work and, unfortunately, that funding has been sunset and so we no longer have that funding within the advancing the knowledge economy section. So those contributions were for planning, rese

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, if possible, one of the things that I'm going to do today is swap out different staff when we get to different sections and so maybe we can come back around to that when we get to the petroleum -- minerals and petroleum resources section

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, certainly we are working on everything to do with critical minerals on basically a daily basis within the department, especially this time of year. I've just come off of a bit of a whirlwind of critical mineral events, both in Vancou

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, that initiative is focused on really investment attraction for critical minerals. This past week, on Sunday night at PDAC in Toronto, we were able to host an event in conjunction with Nunavut and the Yukon, and it was incredibly well

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we're working through MACA. Thank you.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Through yourself, I'd like to pass to assistant deputy minister Cyr.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Through yourself, I would like 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, I absolutely want the voices of committee to be involved in this work. And so between the months of April and July, there will be an engagement period that will include Indigenous governments, the public, stakeholders, and certainly

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So we certainly use that work as a basis for this work. But that work is certainly, as the Member referenced, absolutely not done. The economic plans from regions speak to things that were identified by people within the region of what they are int

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, the economic vision exercise that's being done is being worked on with multiple stakeholders across the territory. We have presented to Council of Leaders, and Council of Leaders has formed a working group with officials that Indigen

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. To my left, I have assistant deputy minister Melissa Cyr. And to my right, I have director of corporate services Nina Salvador.