Jane Groenewegen

Page 12, Municipal and Community Affairs, operations expenditures, not previously authorized, regional operations, $11.070 million.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. Roland.

Mr. Chairman, $3.5 million to extend the life of a 50-year-old building by two to four years? This makes the $320,000 in Inuvik to talk about design of office space pale in comparison. The folks that are in that building, we’ve visited that building, we’ve gone there for retreats and meetings, we have even had meetings in that building. Yes, certainly it’s an old building but it seems to be one that is held in some endearment in that community. I can understand the code. I can understand the reports of fire marshals and that kind of thing, but they have been kind of nursing that building...

Thank you. Clause 2.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Mr. Roland.

Thank you. Municipal and Community Affairs, operations expenditures, not previously authorized, regional operations, continued, total department, $47.307 million.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Pokiak.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, some people listening to this debate may think we have taken leave of our senses when we talk about our infrastructure and our capital deficit here in the Northwest Territories. However, I have a slightly different idea about how a motion like this and how artistic expression can be incorporated.

To me, I don’t quite envision taking a bunch of northern crafts and things and hanging them on walls and having them as an add-on. I think, again, this building is a perfect example of where the culture and the artistic expression is integrated into the building...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I’d like to know if a demand for increased capacity would include re-examining the vacant space and vacant cells which now exist in the South Mackenzie Correctional Centre in Hay River. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister responsible for Justice. Recently we’ve heard some news in the media that perhaps the North Slave Correctional Centre doesn’t have the capacity that’s required for persons incarcerated in the Northwest Territories. I’d like to ask the Minister, when the North Slave Correctional Centre was built, how many inmates was it intended to house in relation to how many are in it today? Thank you.