Kevin O'Reilly

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I've been listening carefully to what the Minister and his staff have said about getting federal support for schools, and that's important, and collaboration and so on. But I want to continue to try to engage him on Ecole Allain St-Cyr expansion. This schools in my riding. I'm getting an enormous amount of complaints about the inability to work with the department in a collaborative fashion. People are stopping me in the streets, I'm getting phone calls, e-mails. Most recently I had somebody stop me on the ice while I'm playing hockey to complain about this. So something...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. So, yes, I guess I'm looking for a clear commitment from the Minister that he's going to provide to Regular MLAs utilization rates of the facility so that we can understand whether it was overbuilt or not as it goes into use. So could he commit to some sort of at least annual reporting of utilization rate of the facility once it starts to be used? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Look, I don't want to drag this out any longer than I have to, but I have one other point that I want to pursue. As I understand it, the court order required the new gymnasium and two special needs spaces. It's the GNWT that's actually decided to work collaboratively with the francophone community to add two additional classrooms that are above and beyond the court order.

So I think I heard the Minister say that we're going to just do the basics. That's not true. What I know is that this has actually gone above and beyond what's in the court order. Going to Heritage Canada...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess we don't seem to have a very good track record for building correctional facilities in the Northwest Territories. We have a youth facility here that's not used, the one in Inuvik was closed. I'm just wondering what sort of assurance the department can give to me and the public that we're doing the right thing with this facility and it's been designed for the right capacity of folks and that we're heading in the right direction. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. So, as I understand it then, a copy of the proposal was not shared with APADY or CSFTNO and still hasn't today. So I'm just wondering why there seems to be some systemic problem with this department working collaboratively with CSFTNO and APADY. I don't understand why the department cannot work collaboratively with these two organizations in something as simple as putting together a proposal that would go to Heritage Canada. That would actually save us money so that we wouldn't have to put all the money into the expansion ourselves. So what is the problem with the department...

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. I'm glad to hear that the Minister does intend to respond to the letter from CSFTNO. But if I heard him correct, I think he said that he's not willing to reopen the directive. That would be extremely unfortunate, Mr. Speaker.

So I just wonder then, how does the Minister propose to develop a better working relationship with APADY and CSFTNO for French first language education in the NWT so we don't end up back in the courts? That's what we all want to avoid. So I think the community's pleading for some flexibility to get us more towards what they have in the Yukon. Can the...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. So, if the proposal was submitted in September, has a copy of that proposal been provided to APADY and CSFTNO? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I didn't quite get all of those numbers, but it sounded like you spent over 30 or $40 million or something for this system.

Is this something that goes out to tender, or once we are, sort of, locked into a system we are stuck with it? How does this actually work? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Glad to hear that all of our employees are competent. Can he just be a little more specific? Are these being bought for a specific purpose? Are they going to be used in a specific location by certain staff? What kind of staff are going to use these vehicles? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Thursday, October the 20, 2016, I will move the following motion: I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh, that the following terms of reference for a Mid-Term Review be adopted:

Cabinet and the Standing Committee on Priorities and Planning shall each evaluate progress on implementing the mandate and make their reports and table them in the House at the earliest opportunity;

The mandate be reviewed, if necessary, by Cabinet with input from the Standing Committee on Priorities and Planning, reviewed in Caucus and tabled for...