Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On February 21, 2013, then Minister of Human Resources made a statement in this House that the Government of the Northwest Territories signed a memorandum of understanding agreement with the Union of Northern Workers. The agreement outlined procedures for employees to safely disclose allegations of wrongdoings within the government, known as the Safe Disclosure of Information, and the MOU was to take effect April 1, 2013.

Some of these highlights included providing employees with access to an independent mechanism for them to confidentially report situations where the...

The in-kind service is always in there. I mean, obviously the $25,000 that’s allocated, it can only cover so much. So if the in-kind services are the same services that are always provided, then that $25,000 obviously isn’t doing as much as it used to due to forced growth and other things. So I just want to make that comment and just bringing it to light that although we’re still doing the in-kind support, the money that’s not in-kind is only going so far and it’s not going as far as it used to go. Thank you.

This is a possible going concern and other pressures. Would the Minister look into conducting some type of questionnaire or survey for anybody that does apply on the program, or is there a questionnaire or survey that the harvesters can fill out and follow up so that it would help us adjust the program as need be for some of these concerns that are brought forth? Thank you.

As stated in the Minister’s opening comments, this is the most promising solution for our energy situation. With those fairly strong remarks, I was wondering if there are any other invested infrastructure possibilities to increase the storage space for this LNG, seeing that the Minister and I’m assuming that the Energy Committee has decided that this is probably our best solution, that if there’s investments looking in the future for a storage facility that can last for a longer period of days. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. First off, I just want to say I appreciate the ongoing support and efforts to try to adjust the gas situation that’s going on in Inuvik, and although I wasn’t there for the commissioning of the LNG there last month or how many weeks ago it was, I still try to keep updated on how things are working and how it’s going. The Minister did mention that although we’re still looking for the meeting to long-term options for addressing heating in Inuvik, that possibility of LNG, which has been identified as the most promising solution to the energy situation that we’re dealing with...

Mr. Speaker, the Minister mentioned that we had no uptakes in this program that we’ve had in place since April 1, 2013. That makes we wonder: why zero? We hear complaints. As MLAs we hear a lot of these complaints in bringing these concerns forward.

Has the department done an effective awareness campaign? How is this information been going out to employees to let them understand that this GNWT is supporting them for coming forward to bring any types of allegations in which they feel there are some wrongdoings? Has the department done an effective campaign to our employees throughout the GNWT...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As follow-up to my Member’s statement earlier today, I’d like to ask the Minister of Human Resources, since the MOU with the Union of Northern Workers on the Safe Disclosure of Information Agreement that we signed into April 1, 2013, I’d just like to ask if there has been any uptake into that program. If so, how many, I guess, allegations or complaints did the GNWT receive?

Mr. Speaker, when this government goes into sole-source contracts or negotiated contracts with a big firm or company, are there any provisions put in these negotiated contracts where the main contractor has to have a certain percentage of local subcontractors, the smaller guys, the guys that have the small businesses? Is there a percentage in that negotiated contract when any of the Ministers or when the Minister goes forward and proceeds with a sole contract? Is there a percentage set out so that when the small businesses in the communities and across the Territories get a piece of the pie...

In terms of this budget, I know, especially when you have to go into a small community and it takes a lot to cover the cost of going into a small community plus any other expenses that may occur, it doesn’t leave much room for one of the staff members or even the coroners in the communities to do any type of awareness prevention, education around these recommendations that we see in these reports.

Is there a budget for education awareness within this office, and if so, can I ask how much of that budget is geared towards awareness and education? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I had the great pleasure and opportunity this weekend to attend some of the Junior Cager basketball games that happened here in Yellowknife. At this moment, I would just like to congratulate the East Three Elementary boys’ team who went undefeated this weekend, going six wins, no losses. On that sixth win that they had yesterday, they claimed the NWT territorial championships, the first ever for East Three Elementary School in any banner of sorts. I just want to say they had some great games, had some great competition and showed a lot of sportsmanship, but a lot of...