Bill Braden

Okay. What is the difficulty or what are the issues that ECE is encountering that it cannot administer this along with so many of the other contribution programs that are made through housing? Madam Chair, it’s quite a confusing piece of work here. I am just trying to make sure I am not missing anything here.

Madam Chair, one of the items under the directorate, $798,000 is to provide contribution funding associated with the transfer of public housing rental subsidy funding for seniors’ assisted living and seniors’ caretaker housing units from ECE to the NWT Housing Corporation. Madam Chair, we just went through quite a turnaround here over the last couple of years of moving operation money from the Housing Corporation to ECE; now we are moving some back. I would appreciate an explanation, for the record, of what this $800,000 contribution funding is going to do that otherwise can’t be done or can...

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...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, stand in support of the motion. Mr. Speaker, my family has long been involved in volunteer organizations that deal with youth and people who are in vulnerable positions and it is, I think, very much standard practice and best practice in organizations, progressive organizations, that this kind of caution, this kind of due diligence, if you will, is something that is very commonly exercised. In fact, I think it’s a condition of the insurance that many of these organizations need, that they have this kind of policy and this kind of practice in place.

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Mr. Speaker, does the department anticipate that this would be a territorially run RV site, as many others are in the NWT, or is the objective to find a private owner or private operator, Mr. Speaker?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions this afternoon are for the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Investment. It’s a bit of a step-off from the statement that he made advising the House of the new reservation system for campers and RVs coming to the NWT. I applaud that; I think it’s a great way to show the NWT’s on board with the modern tourism industry. We’ve been engaged in an exercise here in Yellowknife, Mr. Speaker, to create more space, more capacity for RVers who want to come up our newly paved highway and, hopefully, try out, in a few years, our newly built Deh Cho Bridge.

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Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. It’s always a pleasure to stand in this Assembly and acknowledge the significant milestones and achievements on behalf of constituents and residents. In this light, it was a great moment for a tremendous northern family, a Yellowknife family and the whole NWT to see that Leela Gilday was acknowledged as the Juno Award winner for aboriginal recordings...

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Okay. Thank you. There is further in the supp an offsetting amount, a similar amount. Thank you. That satisfies my question about new money or just switching pockets here. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think I’ve exhausted that one. I do hope the Minister has taken some notice to sometimes the degree of information provided and just how clearly stated some of these programs are, these projects are. Mr. Chairman, that’s all, thanks.

How many buildings and how many caretakers are we talking about here, Madam Chair?

I am sorry. I am no further ahead. What is it paying for? What is this $800,000 supplying, Madam Chair?