Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have three documents for tabling today.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I understand where committee members are feeling those. I’ve mentioned this quite a number of times about the planning, the process, where we find ourselves now, and as I said earlier, ultimately it’s this House that will direct how things are going and the final accountability happens here on the floor. So the Member has mentioned the motion as well as another Member mentioned she’s prepared to move the motion, so I suggest that if that’s the consensus, then let’s get on with the motion. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, yes, Public Works and Services is involved in monitoring CRTC hearings throughout Canada to see if in fact there will be impacts on service that's provided in the Northwest Territories, and we will be presenting our case in Whitehorse regarding a number of issues in the Northwest Territories and how our service provider here in the Northwest Territories operates. I'm not in a position to get right into a lot of the detail at this stage. Number one is we'd like to put our position on the table without having other groups who are concerned about the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Yellowknife South, that Bill 1, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 4, 2005-2006, be read for the third time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam. Chairman. If we can have the Minister of Transportation respond to that. He, I believe, has more detail. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the office of the fire marshal became involved in May of 2002. There have been ongoing discussions with that office in trying to get agreement as to what needed to be done with that facility to get the fire marshal to agree with the occupancy. There were some orders for immediate corrective action and that was done initially and, at that time, the office of the fire marshal determined that the building was not in compliance with a number of applicable National Building Codes of Canada and the National Fire Code and directed that specific improvements be...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, in our work with, or the Housing Corporation’s work I should say with the federal government on this program, it has been recognized and identified that the existing program the Housing Corporation is involved in would be our share towards that. The new money is the $50 million tied to the existing programs that the Housing Corporation is involved with. The request for this is O and M, salary and benefits, and O and M as well for the total, as I stated earlier, of $1.6 million, and this portion for this fiscal year is $957,000. It is more money that we...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It’s not that the work that we’re going to do expires. It’s that if we’re going to use it for longer than the years we’ve identified, other requirements are going to have to come into place. That’s what we’ve been told from the fire marshal’s office is if we’re going to use it beyond this year, here’s the amount of work that is required. That’s what we’ve based the estimate on. If we’re going to go beyond those years, here are further things that you’re going to have to repair. So that’s what we’ve been directed. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Madam Chair. With me today I have the secretary to the FMB, Mr. Mark Cleveland. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This facility has been looked at for a number of years as to what options could be undertaken to either keep the facility, renovate the facility or replace the facility complete. In our estimates in 2004 for the renovation, it was identified as $12 million. For replacement of the new facility, it was an estimate in 2004, for the same size, was approximately $19 million. The fact is there has been discussion back and forth between Education, Culture and Employment, the community, and options were sought from Public Works. The work that was done and what options may be...