Robert Hawkins

Thank you, Madam Chair. Certainly it’s a pleasure to move this motion. This is about two particular issues at large, if I may speak to it in that manner. Our committee believes in supporting the shelter that has been established here in Yellowknife, but at the same time we said in a plural form, which is we believe that the communities deserve these much needed opportunities of day shelters as well. This motion’s intent is to extend ongoing services to the Yellowknife day shelter, but at the same time, we think it’s critical that the communities and the regions cannot be forgotten because this...

Thank you. One of the questions I wanted to continue following up on in a similar vein was general contractors not paying their subs. Although I know that the department will have a, I’ll say a canned answer where they’ll say, well, it’s hands off and it’s not their problem, but that sort of speaks to the diligence I talked about earlier. I realize we’re a public government so we cannot necessarily blacklist per se, but how do we deal with that when we have general contractors not fulfilling, well I’ll call it their moral obligation but by all means their financial obligations by paying their...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Thursday, February 28, 2013, I will move the following motion: Now therefore I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Nahendeh, that the Government of the Northwest Territories investigate and evaluate the possibility of regulating gasoline prices;

And further, that the Government of the Northwest Territories provide a comprehensive response to this motion within 120 days.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. How do you monitor deficiencies sort of in the same stroke? When you do all of these types of reviews and you monitor these contracts in the context of compliance and follow through, do you do any particular follow-up, in a public reporting sense, as to how contracts have been fulfilled, whether they’ve been fulfilled properly, whether we had a fight with them, whether they complied? What I’m getting at is, is there any type of public disclosure that the public would be able to say, when they did this project, they wanted, we will call it fair and square, they did this project but...

I’ve heard community so many times here today. I’m not talking about community; I’m talking about all education boards. That means all of them, not just one in particular. There is no mandate and, therefore, there is no technical support from the Department of ECE which can further support all education boards.

The Minister is correct; a few offered to a very few students. All students deserve this skill. What can the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment do to ensure this type of mandate and support gets out there to all our students and all our school boards from his department? What...

What type of public reporting do you do when you monitor the compliance of the commitments that some of these contractors make? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I hearken back the House’s attention to Committee of the Whole on Tuesday, May 29, last year. I had asked the Minister clearly, on the record, about possibly delivering support to school districts so they can teach their students, grades 9, 10, 11, 12, First Aid, by giving them the resources and empowering them to do this. There is an interest at the school level.

The response from the Minister on the record is that that’s something that they need to explore. It’s getting close to a year. What has the Minister found out on this particular question? Of course, these are...

How do you validate those types of things when they create those formulas? Do you do a follow-up or an audit throughout the process to ensure that they’re complying with their BIP document? I mean, quite often we hear that someone lowballs a bid but then they turn around and, you know, right after they get the bid and they sign their contract for that particular project, they then submit a claim for an adjustment. How do we make sure that they’re delivering on what they promise?

The other question at the same time, I guess, is what does Public Works do specifically to try to foster an...

That was the missing component there. Can I be sent a copy of the report once it’s been done?

I think that’s enough of a cursory intro to know exactly what that is. Just one other last question. Under drug treatment funding program, Nats’ejee K’eh Centre Youth Treatment Program, are there any deliverables under this particular section? We have a section worth commitment, requiring $345,000. I’m just wondering if there’s any reporting or deliverables that we see sent to the Legislature.