Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, an employee is eligible for up to 15 days annually. That amount cannot be booked or gone over. It is fairly clear there that there are 15 days. That can be broken down into whatever number, a half-day at a time, a few hours at a time, and put into practice that way. There isn’t a process in place to say that they met during lunch hour and need to take a different time for that process. That isn’t built in. If their meetings go over, and it is part of the allowable reasons for civic leave, then, again, it would be just a matter of applying for the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, this project was on the books and a planned program was in place. We did have to bring in an individual to look at this who specializes in these types of structures. There were some noted concerns about it and in the report we were given, we were informed that there was a high potential of environmental risk here if we did not move this project ahead. So what you see here is the fact that we’ve had to bring the cash flow up sooner than we had originally planned. The original plan for this year would have been about $20,000 for some initial work. In 2005...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The $184,000 ends up dealing with a couple of other figures in there. The negotiated purchase price ended up being $180,000, but the inspection cost was $1,685 and the closing adjustments were $2,521. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have started our work as a government to bring all departments and boards into line when we deal with our human resource issues. We have begun that work to ensure that. The rules that we have in place are interpreted the same way across the board. We have heard the concerns before and are starting to do some work in that area and bring it into line. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

No, nothing further, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I don’t have the actual figures left on that. We can’t provide that information as to the number who were grandfathered. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the civic leave section of the human resource manual states that civic leave is for those that are entitled to the treaty or have treaty status in the Northwest Territories and it is quite clear. It hasn’t been an issue raised to me in the past, but it does state that Dene employees with treaty status would request one half-day leave per year to attend treaty celebrations in their community. That can be granted. So it is clear at this point, but I guess what I am hearing is that there is a concern that it should be eligible to status Dene whether they...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, that was the general practice of all organizations that did get these funds. It was again intended for harvesters and to support them in maintaining their harvesting practices. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. No, it doesn’t. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the government operates on estimates. An estimate was made based on the requirements that would be needed for that space. We know what the type of requirements are, so we went ahead on that basis as we do with other things. What we could potentially find here is we could go either way. There might not be the requirement for the full amount, or there might be a requirement for more, but I highly doubt that, as we're aware of the type of space that's required and the estimates put in place with the space requirements. Thank you.