Bill Braden

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The total bill for this will be under the first of a three-year program, so the total cost for this work on these two tank farms is $1.3 million over three years for decommissioning and environmental remediation. Could the Minister give us a bit of an idea how much to actually do the tear down and then how much for remediation out of that $1.3 million allocation, Mr. Chair?

Thank you, Mr. Braden. We understand from some of the background research that committee has done into this, that the location of these two positions has yet to be determined. So we don’t know which regions or which communities they are going to go to. In fact, similar positions that have been recruited for in the past have been extremely difficult to recruit to. On this one, I am with Mr. McLeod. I looking at the amount of resources, both PY and financial, and it should be noted here that this is $291,000 for two positions. I am assuming that includes travel and related expense to this job...

Where in the North Slave region is this going, Mr. Chairman?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, stand in support of the motion. I’m pleased to see it here. In the almost eight years now that I’ve served in this Assembly, looking back I’ve tried to take a bit of an inventory of just what have we done, or at least what have I done and helped do in the last two terms here that might have contributed something to our government’s role in reducing alcohol abuse. Not a lot of things come to mind, Mr. Speaker. Perhaps I should go through some of the acts in the legislation, but I do recall I think the Motor Vehicles Act in was it the previous Assembly, in...

Mr. Chair, I don't want to make the assumption that is just a shower building as we see a little bit higher on the page we're also building a shower building in Fort Providence for $70,000, but the one at Natanlaii is $226,000. So that's the level of detail I'm looking for.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, and I think all other Members are very supportive of the financial resources going into it. It’s the methodology, the programs, the approach that we’re taking that has really piqued my interest, Mr. Speaker. We know that, for instance, the National Association of Friendship Centres, of which there are several affiliates here in the NWT, is shifting its program direction toward awareness. There are many other organizations, the Salvation Army, the Centre for NWT Families, that are front-line organizations. Are we partnering with them? Are we looking to harness their...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I can't resist. I have to get some description on $226,000 to build a shower building. I'm sure there's more going on here for a quarter million dollars for more than just a shower building.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to recognize Mr. Bryrne Richards of the Tree of Peace, a great advocate and a worker in the addictions field here in the NWT and in a number of other communities in the NWT.

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Okay, I won't beat away on it, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I, too, wanted to put a little bit of a focus on the survey and the conference items there. While they were contained in a briefing that committee got, Madam Chair, I don’t recall the details myself. So this is not a surprise in here, but I think it would be, it’s not very often that money is attached to the descriptions of these things that committee hears about. That comes up now and we’re looking at $75,000, for instance, for the survey and I believe Mr. Handley told us that this would cover 750 people. So in one sense it boils down to $100 a person to do a survey...