Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have an amendment to make on the bill.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, when employees inform us that they will be retiring or transferring or leaving this government for whatever reason, there are forms that have to be filled out and sent in. From time to time, we find, unfortunately, that some forms are omitted or that the department the staff member was working for filled out some portion in error and caused a delay in the schedule that has been identified.

As I stated, we are working on improving the system. That is why corporate human resource service centres were established to create a better environment for employees...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, again the amendments that we are proposing here would bring us in line with the federal tax act. There is no plan from our part to bring forward any other special provisions that would create any differences between our act and the federal act. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in the area of human resource service centres, as the Member has pointed out, we have realized throughout government, because of the way the human resources was decentralized, that every department had its own section, which caused us a fair bit of problems. We recognize that and put forward this plan to bring the human resource service into centres within each region and here in headquarters to work better with our employees to make sure the forms were getting done and those things were being dealt with. One of the problems we’ve found as a result of doing...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With me here, I have Mr. Aitken from the Department of Justice and to my right I have the deputy minister of Finance, Ms. Margaret Melhorn, and from Finance, as well, is Mr. John Monroe. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am pleased to introduce Bill 10, An Act to Amend the Income Tax Act. This bill addresses a number of changes to the NWT Income Tax Act to ensure it remains consistent with the federal Income Tax Act.

The Tax Collection Agreement between the Government of the Northwest Territories and Canada provides that we will keep the NWT act consistent with the federal act. Where different provisions exist, the Canada Revenue Agency could charge our government for the cost of administering those different provisions. There is no cost to the NWT for the Canada Revenue Agency to...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I’ll have to check into that as well. If there was agreement on certain timelines between the employee and the department they were resigning from or retiring from, that would all be case by case I would believe, but I will check into that to see if that is normal practice. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the work that is ongoing now at the facility will give it a further increased lifespan. As was laid out previously, we had a five-year agreement in place that would require inspection of the foundation on an annual basis. With this work going ahead and replacing many of the pilings themselves, we should be able to get a clean bill of health for hopefully a minimum of five years as the plans are going ahead for replacement of that facility.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the plan for reopening of the Samuel Hearne Secondary High School is for about the middle of December, but our goal is to have the classes back in operation in the high school after the Christmas break. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Friday, October 14, 2005, I will move that Bill 11, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 2, 2005-2006, be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.