Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Madam Chair. Just so that I can get to proper closure of this file, during the demolition phase there was definite anticipation that there was going to be a significant amount of asbestos and contaminated materials. I was led to believe that there was more contaminated material than earlier, I guess, thought of when the demolition commenced and even during the different phases of the demolition process.

My question is that given the budget that we had of the $8.6 million, did that cover all the extra anticipated disposal of asbestos and any other contaminated substances that were...

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.

Okay. Committee, we’re on general comments, Bill 9, general comments. Does committee agree that there are no further comments and we’d like to proceed to clause-by-clause of the bill?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to table a number of documents here from the Canadian Travellers Report Card and Evaluation of Government Policy and Practice for Canadians Who Travel, 4th Edition. This is by the Canadian Snowbird Association.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. We’ll go to Minister Miltenberger. Actually, we’ll go to Mr. Kalgutkar.

Thank you, committee. Bill 8, Write-off of Debts Act, 2013-2014. Clause 1.

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Madam Chair, if I’m reading the deputy minister’s response, and I have to maybe go back to answers tomorrow to take a look at it, but I did hear the word it “could” be for offices and it would not be used for discretionary funding.

I know all too well, being in this House for the few years that I have, typically the Department of Finance as well as departments know very well where they’re spending the money. Money is not easily come by in this House. Money is very sought after, and when there is money to be spent, I can assure you, Madam Chair, we all know that there is a laundry list a mile...

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. For that, we’ll go to Mr. Aumond.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. I’ll go on to Ms. Bisaro.

I will probably get some clarifications on the changes in fines, which leads to my next question. I took the liberty to compare our fine and demerit program for distracted driving and put them against the rest of the country. While the NWT residents normally suffer from a high cost of living, clearly our fines make us the cheapest place to get caught in the country.

Can the Minister explain why our fines, from what I know today, are published at $115? Why are they so low? More importantly, what is he doing to address our inability to deter motorists? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.