Michael Miltenberger

Mr. Chairman, once again I will commit to get the information for the Member.

Mr. Chairman, with your indulgence, I would refer that question about commitments and program briefings to Minister Michael McLeod from Transportation.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Funding for the modular units was approved in 2007-08 Supplementary Appropriation No. 2. Modular units were located in Ecole St. Joseph site temporarily until the renovation of the school was complete. Carry-over of funding is required to relocate the modular units to allow phase three of Ecole St. Joseph renovation...(inaudible)...project to be complete. The modular units might be removed from Ecole St. Joseph site June 2010.

Mr. Speaker, there are two key issues. At present, the market is still in its infancy in terms of what’s needed in terms of supply. Then the other one, especially in the South Slave, given it’s an unsettled claims area, is the issue of access to appropriate amounts of timber that would allow us to, in fact, have an ongoing supply. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’ll commit to get the Member the specific figure, including the $154,000 that’s lapsed. Thank you.

First, I’d just like to point out that what we are doing with this particular fund is leveraging about $8 million or so over the life of this project for our… The million dollars that we’re talking about for this year is already third-party funding, and we will be looking for the subsequent years of a quarter-million dollars a year or $200,000 a year, sorry, over the subsequent five years to similar third-party funding. What we’re going to get out of this is all the things we’ve talked about in terms of monitoring and better understanding our water and aquatic ecosystems up in the Northwest...

Yes, Mr. Chairman, and part of the delay has been the paperwork and information flowing back and forth between jurisdictions. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There is a two-stage process that we are interested in and investing in. First, of course, is building the market, doing the retrofits, encouraging people to use alternative forms of energy, which is well underway, and through that process build a market so that we can, in fact, sustain our own value-added industry in the Northwest Territories. There are two basic approaches: the one is to have a fixed site where we invest in a fairly large production facility similar to what’s there in High Level, but there’s also significant interest that has been expressed almost...

Mr. Chairman, there was an offsetting amount lapsed last year so this is not new money. Thank you.

We’re not endorsing independent boards, Mr. Chairman, we are building the system where we’re going to come up with, for example by next year, one contribution agreement that all boards will have to sign so that it is a consistent document that lays out all the expectations, responsibilities, authorities and accountabilities.

What we have is basically an anomaly in our system where in Hay River they had a different setup a number of years ago. They unionized differently and when the health board came under the direct responsibility of the Government of the Northwest Territories, it was kept in...