Shane Thompson

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Regarding inmate recovery, do we have a… What’s the legal liability issue of having these inmates working outside of the confinement of corrections? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I’ll just build on Mr. O’Reilly’s questions here so I can better understand what’s being offered here. If I understand correctly, we have $100,000 for salary, then we have $367,000 which includes materials and supplies and volumes of books. Is this correct?

I thank the Minister for his answer. I guess the thing is the question comes back to, he’s saying it works. We’re hearing, myself, that there’s some challenges out there. My question is again, how does somebody in Yellowknife not in the region, in Yellowknife able to answer questions after hours and on weekends?

Thank you, Ms. Haener, and I thank the Minister for his answers as well. Can the Minister commit to providing the social development committee with an update on this, so we know what’s going on in this area? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I’m just going to ask a couple more questions to my favourite new Minister of Transportation. In regards to our conversation today, we were talking about, or our Q and A session here, we were talking about the airports and that. Can the Minister please advise us how somebody from Yellowknife, a duty officer is able to provide good information to the airlines that are outside when he has no experience in those communities?

Thank you. Am I understanding that if the report isn’t done, this type of program or a similar program will be implemented until such time as the new program is started? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I guess I should have clarified. These are afterhours issues on weekends. In the past, it’s been my understanding, what I’ve been told by people in the communities that there was a regional contact. Now, it is territorial contact. Can the Minister confirm this is the practice?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Are you making a commitment that this program or a similar program will be ready to go on January 1st so that there is no lapse? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, during the weekend of March 1st, there was some concerns raised about who you need to contact to get information on smaller airports. In the past, it was a regional staff, but I’ve heard this has changed. Mr. Speaker, can the Minister of Transportation please advise the House when it comes to dealing with after-hours issues for smaller airports and they do not have government staff, who do they contact, and is there a 1800 number? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I thank the Minister for his answer. I’m just looking at some information here. Nunavut, their government library is 100-per-cent funded. Yukon is 70-per-cent. It really confuses me why our two sister territories think it is important to have this law library. And I guess my other concern is the judicial library is not open to the public. How are we going to have people given the opportunity to get information properly if it’s all over the place? Thank you, Mr. Chair.