Tom Beaulieu

Thank you. I didn't want to get too deep into these nonbudget questions. However, for clarification, what I'm discovering is that individuals that were leasing because they don't have ownership of the lots did not attain ownership through a previous process  there's no more ownership process now but then ended up on a leased, piece of leased land which has now become a rental land. So individuals are actually renting the piece of land for 10 per cent of the value of the piece of land that they're renting. So it's quite an extreme high cost, and many people can't afford it, so people are just...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chairman, sorry, it caught me a little off-guard. I thought that this was for the district operations, and in that I mean the operations of the district staff, all the staff that work in the district operations. I didn’t know that these were the program dollars for the communities. I thought they were just the staff that were there and I was anticipating that maybe there was a reduction in the number of staff in those district offices. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Last question. That means there is enough money there for one more community to come forward to access their portion of the budget? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That would be three from 2015-16 or is it three for 2016-17? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, committee wishes to consider Tabled Document 50-18(2), Main Estimates, 2016-2017, and committee would like to consider the NWT Housing Corporation, Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment, and Department of Justice. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That’s good. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Martin’s response indicated that this was an accounting reduction, and it is a reduction in the programs. But my assumption was that this was… The North Slave and South Slave district offices were fully staffed. I just thought that if there was $2 million less spent in the North Slave office only two fiscal years ago, if there was a reduction in the staff that caused that. That was what my question was. Maybe I will ask the question: was there a reduction in the staff in either of those two offices, North Slave or South Slave?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, similar questions on the reductions. My interest of course in the North Slave district and South Slave district. Just wondering if they could explain the reductions compared to the actuals in 2014-15.

Thank you. My original question was: did the money from 2015-16, some of it or most of it, lapse?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, to the Northern Pathways to Housing, there is enough money in there to do four projects, but three projects were approved. I notice that the same budget appears in last year’s revised mains and mains and also in this year’s mains. I am wondering if the money lapsed last year. Did we do three last year and doing three more this year? Thank you.