David Krutko

This has come to my attention not once but several times. I believe that we do have an obligation under the Human Rights Act as a government to fulfill our obligations as providers of services and to ensure that we are not discriminating clients. What is the Housing Corporation doing to ensure that front-line workers, whether it’s housing authorities and staff, are aware of their obligations under the Human Rights Act?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again the combined services building, I noted the Minister said it was going to be completed and opened here shortly. Why are we carrying $1.026 million? What is that expenditure for? A million dollars?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It has come to my attention that we have a Human Rights Act in place which clearly does not allow for discrimination on the basis of race, age, gender, disability, sex, political beliefs, social conditions. It’s still apparent that the word has not gotten out, especially to our front-line workers who are discriminating on the basis that the individuals who are coming forward to pick up an application to apply to the housing authorities are refused simply because they do not want those individuals to be tenants.

The Human Rights Act is very clear that you cannot...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. My other question is in regard to the YK Airport, the wood pellet boiler, $660,000. Just going ahead in regard to the following page, I noticed there’s one point something million for the same facility. So I’d just like to know, it’s on page 13, the combined services building, $1.026 million. I’m just wondering, is that the same capital expenditure and how close are we, again, to completing the construction of that combined services building at the airport?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. In regards to the office records centre warehouse in Inuvik, $489,000. I thought the facility was almost completed, so I would like to know what type of work do you have to do for almost $5 million.

Mr. Chair, I don’t know if it’s in here but one of the areas we did receive a lot of money which is also for municipalities, and I know that some of our municipalities are still struggling with trying to get their stimulus dollars funded. I’m wondering if that’s anything that’s part of these capital expenditures. I’d like to know what happens in those scenarios. Are we going to also have to live up to those obligations if they don’t meet the timelines? Thank you.

Again, I have to note that Highway No. 1, there were a bunch of upgrades and that taking place. That’s part of the carry-overs. I’m just wondering if there are any penalties associated with the contractors to conclude the contracts within a particular contract season, because it seems like a lot of these carry-overs are very large sums by way of the numbers of them. What contractual obligations do contractors have to conclude contracts within specific time frames in those contracts and are we sticking to them?

Just a clarification. I think we’re having some problems here identifying which document we’re operating off of. Maybe if we can just get clarification of exactly which document we’re talking about here. We have the Supplementary Operations Expenditures, No. 1. We have the Supplementary Infrastructure Expenditures, No. 1. I think either the covering page is wrong or misplaced. Could we get clarification of which document we’re dealing with?

As we heard earlier today from the Member for Nahendeh with regard to the closure of Highway No. 7, is this part of anything close to where the washout took place or where the road is closed because of the lack of bridges or bridgework in Highway No. 7?

Again, there are a lot of other needy projects out there, especially in the communities where you have high operational costs in the isolated communities. I’m wondering when this government is going to make an effort to make these type of investments in the more high-cost communities and bring down the cost of living in our communities, than continue to make these kind of capital expenditures. Especially in the capital and for a brand new piece of infrastructure to be built and then to put this into the mix without even allowing other communities the same opportunity to consider those dollars...