Robert Hawkins

Yeas that’s part of this division, is to develop plans. It’s not actually to submit a plan for capital dollars to build, it’s all about building a plan.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. WHEREAS regulating a maximum price for gasoline in the Northwest Territories would promote fairness and improve confidence for consumers and retailers throughout the Northwest Territories;

AND WHEREAS the cost of living in the Northwest Territories is high, and volatile fuel prices have a direct impact on all consumers;

AND WHEREAS a formula used to get gasoline prices would improve fairness and transparency in product pricing;

AND WHEREAS the public deserves full disclosure of the details of the price it pays for gasoline;

AND WHEREAS the Government of the Northwest...

The Minister knows I’m well aware this isn’t the capital budget and that’s why I’m asking about the planning. What type of capital planning can the Minister actually describe that actually provides a detail? All I heard was we’re planning an options paper. I’m not sure what an option paper is referring to. Maybe he could speak more specific to what that actually means. He also said there were partners and I’m not sure what the options had meant. The answers lacked all or any detail that made any sense. This is an important issue and he knows that, he knows I raise this repeatedly. I’m trying...

I guess… No, that’s fine. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, my job is to… One of the things is to compliment good work, but at the same time, my job is to point out problems in the system and provide solutions, which I keep providing them but they seem to fall on deaf ears.

So here is one more – and I’m not saying just this Minister; I’m saying many Ministers – would this Minister consider the option of taking a third-party monitoring system by appointing someone to review these so-called Northerners, because he may find that some comply perfectly, which should be supported, and some don’t comply at all. We should be celebrating the good...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just in the context of full-cost accounting, and if I may call it an obvious technicality that I’m seeing, why do we charge back on TSC services but we don’t charge back on costs for utilities?

Who is responsible for these specific bills on these energy costs? Which departmental budget do they come from that cover the actual payments?

Mr. Speaker, I am simply asking the question how does the government monitor, manage and validate the numbers presented as what we define as a northern working force. In the socio-economic agreements, it is a very specific description that says the mines must live up to a certain amount of workforce. That said, is the government taking it on blind faith or do they validate this? If they validate this, how do they report it? Thank you.

So it’s determined by the winning vendor in a competitive process. Okay. Is that publicly disclosed in some manner or form?

Would the Minister be able to describe the holdback scheme, how it’s applied to northern contractors and southern contractors, how it’s applied to projects in large communities such as Yellowknife, Inuvik, or Hay River, and furthermore, how would it be proscribed in a manner that it would be in Fort Good Hope or Wekweetì or Lutselk’e? Can you explain the dynamics of that situation?