Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as a government, for any agreement we enter into with other jurisdictions, other governments, municipalities, the transfer of funds with NGOs, we do enter into multi-year funding, but it is based on the fact that we have a cycle that we follow that every year has to be approved by the Legislative Assembly. So we can’t put an unconditional grant in place where for nine years they can do things or for three years. We have set up block funding agreements on a three-year basis with municipalities so they could do better planning, but that is also conditional...

Mr. Speaker, just to highlight some of the hardware we took home; besides taking home the championship trophy for the masters division we had the most valuable player, who was also the top goalie, our goalie, Mr. Tom Williams.

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He happens to be with us today. I shared the top defenseman with another player from a team locally.

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So, Mr. Speaker, again congratulations to those boys, and we’re looking forward again to coming back and making a trip down to Yellowknife for the Balsillie Cup. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, our process as the Government of the Northwest Territories is through the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs. They work with our community governments throughout the Northwest Territories, so there is contact there. Once this review is done, we will look at it and see if we have to make changes overall as a government. Thank you.

Maybe the Member can answer for me where the nine months comes from. An agreement is signed April to March, so the funding is known for that year but the planning cycles may be somewhat different. So if I could get some clarification there, please.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It’s my pleasure to introduce today in the gallery Mr. Tom Williams who is not only a top goaltender for the Inuvik Ice Devils, but he’s also the chief operating officer for the Gwich’in Tribal Council.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, seeing that the NHL is officially off for the rest of the year, I would like to give an update of some of our own home-grown talent in the Northwest Territories.

Mr. Speaker, back in December, December 17th to the 19th, the First Nations Cup was held here in Yellowknife and Inuvik sent down a team into the masters division, which is I think a better name than old timers. I must say that the Inuvik Ice Devils showed remarkable gamesmanship and won the masters division and took home a fair bit of hardware as well, Mr. Speaker. I feel even better saying this...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the government does, through another section, regulate honorariums that would be set up for different boards and agencies that would work for us or work under us, but not under this section. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First off, coming from the side that I do on the financial side, if there wasn’t support for the secondary industry from this government, the first and quickest way of cutting our losses would have been to liquidate the operations when this first came up. But as the government has chosen to continue to support the secondary industry, we’ve entered this and requested the courts to step in and have the receiver begin doing their work. The receiver entered into a process of basically going out to tender, putting out a package and having those that were interested...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We’ll have to get that detail for the Member, but again, the way the Power Support Program is run, anybody paying higher than the Yellowknife rate would qualify for the subsidy and that’s the basis that we’re working on here. We’ll get confirmation of that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I don’t believe there’s a need to back off on this one. As we go through the next process, we will be able to get started on it this year coming up and begin that process. So I don’t believe it’s a backing off. It’s a matter of getting started and ensuring we are heading down the right path. Thank you.