Item agreed to.
(The following items were agreed to:)
Northern Program-
20c. Administration, Operation and Maintenance including grants as detailed in the Estimates, $1,860,778.
21c. Reimbursement of Northern Administration Revolving Fund for the value of stores which have become obsolete, unserviceable, lost or destroyed, $24,514.
30c. Northern Mineral Development Assistance Grants-To extend the purposes of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Vote 30 of the Main Estimates for 1967-68 to authorize the expenditure in the current and subsequent fiscal years of amounts not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of $6,500,000 for Northern Mineral Development Assistance Grants and to reduce the total commitment authorization granted pursuant to the provisions of Northern Affairs and National Resources Vote 7A of Appropriation Act No. 9, 1966 and Indian Affairs and Northern Development Vote 30b of Appropriation Act No. 7, 1967 to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of $18,000,000, $3,500,000.
34c. Payment to the Government of the Yukon Territory in accordance with an agreement to be entered into by the Minister of Finance, with the approval of the Governor in Council, on behalf of the Government of Canada, and the Commissioner of the Yukon Territory, on behalf of the Government of the Yukon Territory, such agreement to provide (on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon) that the Government of the Yukon Territory will not impose, levy or collect individual income taxes, corporation income taxes, corporation taxes or succession duties, as defined in the agreement; the payment to the Government of the Yukon Territory under the agreement to be calculated on the following bases:
(a) A subsidy of eighty cents per head in respect of the population of the Yukon Territory as determined by the 1961 census;
(b) A grant in aid of the Government and Council of the Yukon Territory of $30,000; and
Supply-Indian Affairs
(c) An operating grant in the amount of $3,054,000 as a contribution towards the estimated operating deficit of the Government of the Yukon Territory in the current fiscal year;
together with payments in respect of amortization payments on outstanding loans for capital expenditures in the Yukon Territory, as provided in the agreement; (the amount payable in respect of the current fiscal year to be reduced by the aggregate of all interim payments made pursuant to Indian Affairs and Northern Development Vote 32 of the Main Estimates for 1967-68), $1.
36c. Reimbursement of the national and historic parks revolving fund for the value of stores which have become obsolete, unserviceable, lost or destroyed, $59,267.