Robert C. McLeod

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don’t really have the information, so until I can gather it, I’ll take the question as notice.

We see the meeting this morning with Prosperous Lake Association as part of the consultation process. As for an actual schedule, I would have to commit to the Member that I don’t have the actual schedule with me, and how they’re going to go about it and where they’re going to go. I will commit to the Member that I’ll get that information and I’ll share it with him.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My understanding is that briefing went very well. We do have some concerns that have been raised before with the squatters on the INAC side of it. Or I’m not sure what it’s called now, AAND? On the AAND side of it. I can commit to the Member that at the first possible opportunity I will communicate to the federal Minister our desire to see them try to be a little more stringent on their part. This just goes to show another excellent opportunity as to why the devolution would work in the Northwest Territories, because we would be in control of the land and decision...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In June 2010 the Safety Advisory Committee completed the second review of the draft Occupational Health and Safety Regulations and recommended to me that they conduct public consultations to receive stakeholder comments and input on the proposed changes.

The consultation period was September 1, 2010, to March 31, 2011. In total, the committee received comments from 59 stakeholders. The comments came from a wide range of stakeholders, including large and small employers, organized labour, private and public sector employers, and individuals.

Since the close of the...

We still have to find out what we’re going to do. It’s not our intent to leave a lot of this infrastructure on the site. Obviously, we had made efforts to try and have folks bid on it. It was auctioned off. The winning bidders, as I said, didn’t pick it up. We have to find a way that we can remove this site and not have to wait for 300 years.

The LHOs identify how many students they would need and they’ve become very good at trying to access any pots of money that are out there to assist them with paying the wages for students. They’re able to make that determination and determine how many students they would need for the summer and they would find the financing.

Most LHOs have tenant relations officers that work with the tenants and bring them up to date on their rental arrears and how they can best address them. They’re called tenant relations officers and they work closely with the tenants.

As far as the district office, I mean, the district offices usually work very closely with LHOs and they give them some guidance and direction. They’re just another sounding board for the LHOs.

We want to ensure that from headquarters right down to the LHOs all policies and procedures are followed very closely, because it won’t work very good if we start doing one...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The assets were auctioned off, however, the winning bidder did not pick them up. They were given final notice and still did not pick them up. We’re exploring other options as to how we can get a lot of the major infrastructure off the property.

Mr. Speaker, this is a completely different environment we work in and we have to adapt to the environment we’re in and do whatever would work well for tenants. We’re doing the Shelter Policy review right now. The rent scale review is a part of that and I briefed committee the other day on when we expect to come forward with some preliminary information on the rent scale review as well the housing choices evaluation. But we’re always willing to listen. We’ve had Members in the committee meetings give us some good feedback on what they would like to see us improving and what they would like to...

As I said earlier, we give them every opportunity to try and rectify the situations that some of them find themselves in. I can point out to the Member that in the community that he mentioned, the overall collection went from a very low number to over 100 percent now; the collection rate. I understand that we’ve had some of these issues in the past and I think the folks there are getting the message, which is encouraging to the Housing Corporation and encouraging to the LHO, because they’re able to use that money now to do some much needed repairs in the communities.

We’ve had other places...