Robert Hawkins

What is the fully encumbered cost or the average the department is using? Again, I can’t use committee documentation that the Minister keeps referring to here because it was given in camera. It makes it difficult when he keeps saying it was given to us, but we can’t reference it specifically. That is why I’m asking what is the average cost used for the fully encumbered cost per position as he’s highlighting. Thank you.

I request a recorded vote, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. Please provide the following information:

the cost of expanding the Social Work Program at Aurora College by one year so that three years of study toward a degree in social work are available in the NWT;

the steps that would be required to expand the Social Work Program at Aurora College by one year; and

the obstacles, if any other than funding, that would have to be overcome in order to expand the Social Work Program at Aurora College by one year.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Minister said there was an average, if I understood it correctly, vacancy of 9 percent for the Department of Justice. For the folks at home and certainly for the Members, specific to the Department of Justice, what would that add up to?

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…

I’m curious, maybe they could explain, and perhaps they explained it during business plans, but I may not have been there or certainly not there at all during that day when they had done this review, but I am curious why capital transfers keeps dropping significantly. We go from $9 million a few years ago down to basically $1.5 through main estimates and then revised just barely over $1.1 million, and now down to $300,000. Perhaps I can get some explanation in that area.

Would the Premier be willing to ensure that these people are guaranteed a job somewhere in the government if, after their training experience, there is no job opening up for them?

I can tell you some of these folks have been doing jobs like they’ve been doing today for 20 or 25 years, and their jobs have been reclassified and they have been told to go reapply for them. By the way, they don’t qualify for interviews anymore. That’s part of the problem here, so I’m asking what guarantees will this Premier provide this sector and what message is he sending by just letting the process roll out by...

Obviously we are running out of time this round, but I wouldn’t mind some details as to medical travel. I would assume that we would have a revenue, if it’s listed here on this page, that points to, for example, third-party insurance coverage. If it isn’t on this particular page, I’m curious as to where it would show up and how much it would be.

To give a specific example, in my view the territorial government shouldn’t be picking up all the costs. Insurance companies should be the first whistle stop on some of these expenses. As far as that goes, whether it’s automobile accidents or, for...