Robert Hawkins

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I used my Member’s statement today to talk about junior kindergarten and certainly the impact of re-profiling 7 percent of their funding model without working together with them. While I explained and it was certainly illustrated during my Member’s statement, what if we took 7 percent of the Department of ECE’s budget how they would go kicking and screaming.

Now, let’s talk about the broader picture now being forgotten about this whole situation, which are the day homes. Ironically, that’s part of the reason why this whole shift of junior kindergarten has evolved.

So, as...

I’m trying to put my finger on those allocations as to where the money is going. Thank you.

What page would that be on if this isn’t the appropriate page?

Thank you. I guess the same questions to the Minister. We can go through it all or I think he understands funded, unfunded, which, et cetera, et cetera. I’ve asked the question repeatedly. I think he knows the question by now. To the Minister, I guess.

I’m fighting for the fair and honest opportunities for Northerners, Mr. Speaker, and because of the real situation of the scandal is my perspective…

Mr. Speaker, I feel that this is a distraction and, as such, I cannot withdraw my remarks to my earlier comments because I felt they were made with honest intention.

Mr. Speaker, I cannot compromise and I must hold fast to my principles based on my passion and belief. I am…

Just changing gears, same kind of concept though. I understand we have a team that does an amazing job at fixing that equipment over at Stanton, that tech crew. I’m not sure what the exact name is and I almost feel embarrassed that I don’t know the name of it, but the tech crew there that works on all the fancy equipment in Stanton certainly provide regional support and they get out to our regions. In essence, do we bill for other regions on that? Do we bill across authorities on that? Who picks up the cost of that? One of the Stanton folks who is a tech, who is an expert in fixing some of...

Thank you. I’m going to say maybe broadly I don’t disagree with the philosophy then that if we don’t make money other jurisdictions don’t make money that, in essence, we’re covering costs, I understand that philosophy and perhaps maybe in the wash it all works out in the bigger picture.

The issue I’m really trying to boil down to here – and I’m going to try to directly put my finger on it – is what type of cost analysis do we look at? For example – I’ll use it by way of example – we sent a physiotherapist to, say, Cambridge Bay and I’m hearing that we’ve covered the costs of the flight to...

So, in essence, out of this $180,000, what would the territorial government be reimbursing through its processes then? It just seems odd to me. I understand why we have to count it as revenue. That’s fine, that’s not the question, but it’s based on how much would we actually be paying through people putting their application in because we agreed to cover their professional fees, which seems a bit of a weird process, but obviously for accounting. Thank you.