Bob Bromley

Son of a gun. I’ll skip those questions.

I would like to talk a little bit about the Family Violence Action Plan funding. I assume that is relevant on this page. At least I see a reference on the next page of this subtext to this. I’m assuming family violence funding is indeed in this. What is the department doing in response to the 19 recommendations for phase 3 of the Family Violence Action Plan? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I congratulate the government on our steady progress towards a greater environmental sustainability to the Waste Reduction and Recovery Program as reflected in the annual report for 2010-11 tabled last December. The report is a catalogue of good news. With beverage container recycling, NWT citizens achieved an 82 percent rate of return or about 25 million of the 30 million deposit containers sold. Twenty-seven locally operated depots, three satellite depots and three processing centres are providing 12 full-time jobs, 30 part-time jobs and five seasonal jobs, plus...

Thank you, Madam Chair. My question is also on the Legal Services Act aspect here. Given the availability of lawyers relative to workload, the high degree of need for legal aid, and I include both court workers and lawyers here, and that legal aid is typically not based in small and remote communities, and obviously there’s the cost factor. What are we expecting and how would a new Legal Aid Act help out with those issues?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to first follow up on the procurement and the administration of suitable land for the delivery of housing programs and services mentioned under the infrastructure services division. I wonder if I could get a concise description of the issue with respect to IAB lands and our challenges on providing housing there. What has been done to resolve the issue and what is our current approach to deal with it? Thank you.

Thank you.

Madam Chair, I guess I am reaching a bit here. Had it been the Minister’s responsibility, I would be bringing accountability into the equation. Now I am asking the Minister to bring accountability with a third party. How many years have we funded this position? How many years has it been empty? How many other positions are there that are empty that they are choosing to use the money as they would see fit rather than asking us how we would like to see it directed? I am presuming that it is our money, our taxpayers’ money that we are providing them here. This is just a general attempt to...

My last question is along the same lines. Are we offering any incentives for power conservation, for example, recognizing that tenants are paying much less than the actual cost of power? It seems like it would be worthwhile to offer incentives that would get us a net gain there and I’m wondering if we are doing any policy development in that area. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to follow up on my colleague’s question there. Here on this page, the first item we have a decrease of $316,000 to community justice committees and projects. I wonder if we can get an explanation of that. Thank you.

That I think helps me understand this position. My second question I have is with respect to the law enforcement programs. I believe $128,000 has been identified for work related to the Mackenzie Gas Project. Obviously, that project has been shelved in the immediate future. I am wondering how we are reallocating those dollars in this fiscal year.

Thanks for the comments from the Minister. Those are good comments and I totally agree, you know, if we can do it on a larger scale than just individual units, that’s definitely where the Housing Corporation should be coming from. He also said we would have to do the work. I think that’s what I and others have been asking for all along, is to do the work required to… Actually, I’m not saying throw an individual woodstove into every house without the work being done. I am asking for that work to be done.

My next question is sort of related to that. I’m very pleased to hear the Minister’s...