Jane Groenewegen

Was there a document that went from the FMB to the Cabinet, and who was that signed by?

Somewhere back a few answers I heard somebody say that there was a possibility that some work could possibly be undertaken. I was talking about the phases of the project and where things that need upgrading or retrofitting or changing — if anything could be undertaken while the kids are away the whole summer — to start looking at these things. I had mentioned ’09. I like the answer I got to the ’09 question, because I heard it was possible.

Then when other people started talking about accelerating, it got a little bit wishy-washy there. Let’s just talk about the possibility for ’09. If — and I...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’m just having a hard time finding it. Page 7-7? Oh, okay. All right. I’m just looking in the wrong book.

First of all, let me say that Public Works and Services has done a very good job of providing information. We asked for numerous things, which were provided in a very timely manner. Mr. Miltenberger was quoted in Hansard last week as saying that he couldn’t get a list of the subcontractors on the Inuvik schools project until the appropriation had been voted on in the House, and in fact, that list was provided to Members today. So that was very good.

The analysis on...

If it’s going to be completed by the end of October, that gives us — November, December, January, February, March, April, May, June — eight months until the kids are out of school. Obviously, the best time to be doing work on the school is when the students aren’t there, because there are 400 students at Diamond Jenness. I don’t think it’s going to be very easy to find alternative locations for them to be getting their education. Some of this work needs to be done in the summer months when the school is not occupied. It may have to be done in a way where a certain amount of the work is done at...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that we report progress.

Motion carried.

All right. That’s Inuvik, yeah.

Laughter.

So the original agreement to negotiate the contract was signed off by Minister Handley, and two subsequent appropriations related to the cost of the Inuvik schools were both signed by Mr. Roland, as the chair of the FMB and the Minister of Finance, correct?

Thank you. Does the Minister know if the Inuvialuit beneficial shareholders benefit directly from any IRC business interests?

Thank you very much. I would appreciate that. Again, just to process: when I asked about Ministers providing letters of support for negotiated contracts in their communities — and Ministers getting involved in discussions about capital projects in their communities at all, I suppose, negotiated or otherwise — it was kind of alluded to that I should know, having been in Cabinet, that there is a process. Something that’s a bit curious to me is that if a Minister provides a letter of support to Cabinet for a negotiated contract for a project in their community, does that Minister then leave the...

Now, supposing that this particular appropriation under ECE gets approval in this House, then the next step will be to draw up and finalize a contract with the party to whom the letter of intent was sent.

I was trying to get at whether there was a significant amount of time between when the letter of intent was sent and when we were talking about this in the House. Then I was going to suggest that perhaps it could have just waited rather than get us into this quasi, possibly legally binding, agreement. But I see there’ve been several months in between: August, September, October — three months...