Michael McLeod

I do, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. Chairman, we’ll have our TSC expert here speak on some of the more specific detail as to what we have done and what will be happening.

Mr. Chairman, we see this investment as a positive move; we see this as an ability to open up new office space. We also have had discussions with the people that the Member is referring to. The Member is aware, I believe, that the people who are going to have the available office space are building a new building to put the very offices that they have into this new office space. So there’s been discussion. I think most of the major players in Yellowknife are aware and have had some discussion at least with the concept if not some of the detail. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, yes, we took that into consideration. Thank you.

Yes, Mr. Chairman, right now we’re at the planning stage. We have, I believe, some money earmarked towards that in a supp and we have looked at a number of options in terms of sites and have looked at building size and things of that nature, but we’re still fairly early in the review.

It’s not something we can do on our own, but we certainly can have the different departments have that kind of discussion with all the different areas that need investment, and the growing concerns of usage and support, and security and compliance, and all the different factors. But it’s very difficult for me to say, yes, we’ll provide a cap. A lot of departments have requirements that would be affected. So we can look at the possible options. We can commit to having discussions with our colleagues and also have that with committee if that’s the desire.

We’ve done over 300 buildings across the North with the thermo-scanning and it’s provided us some pretty good information. We’ve also looked at doing energy audits and we’ve done a number of facilities in the Member’s riding.

In terms of the gravel supply and coordination from Public Works, we do upgrade our assessments twice a year and we have had some very good success in a lot of the communities in terms of acquiring gravel and savings through economies of scale, partnering up with government departments -- Housing Corporation and others -- and it’s also allowed the communities to provide...

Mr. Chairman, we’ve been making some investment in the community for the last number of years and as recent as 2008 when we expanded the tank farm from up to five large tanks. It is a site that’s most suitable for the tank farm.

It would be a fairly expensive, fairly significant investment that would be required to move the facility. We certainly can have that discussion with the community, but right now we have no plans in place to relocate the tank farm. We can have that discussion as we tour the Sahtu and his communities. I believe we’re going there in April sometime.

Mr. Chairman, this was reviewed. We had staff take a look and provide us some recommendations. To date, it hasn’t been something that we feel that will have a lot of buy in. We are not convinced that it’s something that we would be successful in moving forward. Therefore, we’re not completely eliminating it, but we’re not going to be spending a lot of energy on something that we don’t think we’ll have put in place.

Mr. Chairman, the Member is correct; there is a whole lot of chipsealing going on and we would like to extend that into the Member’s riding in the Mackenzie Delta. We are well committed to doing the financial analysis. The Member has raised it before. We will look at the cost factor and look at the analysis of what it would take in terms of investment for chipsealing or Easy Street in the area of Fort McPherson. We are going to do that this summer, if that makes sense, and if we can demonstrate that there is some viability, then we will move to the next stage of trying to test an area in the...