Bob Bromley

Sorry, I don’t have a response to that right off hand, Madam Chair.

Thank you. The Minister has told me by letter that the GNWT will work with Canada to conclude Edehzhie, which I appreciate, but then with respect to all of the other areas, National Wildlife Areas proposed, the GNWT appreciates the significant work undertaken. What does that statement mean? Thank you.

Madam Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Chief Electoral Officer proceed to develop restructured Tariff of Fees Regulations and provide the draft regulations to the Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures for comment before recommending them to the Commissioner. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to recognize a Weledeh resident, Mr. Steve Matthews. He’s a long-term resident, spent his whole career with GNWT and is semi-retired now, I believe. Also with him is Mr. John Lee, a renowned bear biologist many of you may know. Both long-term residents with their families of Yellowknife.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Do we know yet what proportion of that will be recovered? I’m assuming that the total in Nahanni Butte now is the $1.964 million, if I’m reading that right, which usually I’m not. If I can get confirmation on what the total is, recognizing that we’re dealing here with the $349,000, and maybe get some sense about if we any idea on what we will be recovering…

I just want to say that I think this is a responsibility of the government, and particularly in this situation where the Northwest Territories split in half – half of ourselves became Nunavut – I think there’s a real responsibility to look after artifacts until such time as Nunavut is able to take that on. I appreciate the work that’s been done to secure that million dollars and help us with that responsibility.

Thank you for that explanation there. Returning to my original question, the first point and the last point show that due to increasing costs, which are accruing as electricity bills, these new costs are accruing because we are no longer subsidizing. As each year goes by we spend less money subsidizing, and what happens is it disappears from the obvious expenditure and becomes part of our utility costs. My question is: What proportion of the millions that we’re now spending to subsidize beyond the annual Territorial Power Subsidy Program to help with electricity costs are we absorbing into...

I appreciate the Minister’s comments there. I just would observe that many of the recommendations were of a systemic nature and totally in line with the prevention side the Minister had mentioned. I hope the Minister will take account for that and put some of his effort into implementation.

I guess maybe we can take this up another time because it does get complicated, but let me ask, what is our access for Canada’s disaster relief here. I see that referred to in the material in helping recover costs, these costs.

Thank you. I appreciate the Minister’s comments there. I think it’s definitely a concern. I am aware, too, of the work we’ve done to repatriate people, adults anyway, and of course we did do a thorough look at this with the Child and Family Services Act review during the 16th Assembly and made a lot of recommendations. Had they been in place, I suspect we shouldn’t have this increasing problem, at least with the children side and ultimately with the adult side as well.

Can we expect to see those recommendations put in place during ‘13-14 to start to deal with this? Thank you.