Bob Bromley

It’s certainly been brought up for many years by MLAs. I’ll leave it at that. Thank you.

Thanks for the Minister’s response on that. I will follow up on that.

The other question I had was if the deferred maintenance is not responsible for the schools, I’m wondering if there’s any GNWT role in getting that deferred maintenance done. We seem to, obviously, be doing it for a lot of schools elsewhere. How are we and when are we going to make sure it gets done by whomever is responsible? For example, Sissons School in Yellowknife. Thank you.

That’s all I had. I think it might be interesting for committee to get a briefing on the functional aspect of it since we have had some briefings that suggest that that is important to the successful operation of the hospital. I will ask for that at a later time, but thank you for that information.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to salute the success achieved thus far on the reconstruction of the Detah road and call for us to keep building this road and building this success.

During this fiscal year and last, $4 million has been spent on the long-overdue reconstruction of the only all-weather artery to the community. Deton’Cho Corporation has led this project with a creative mix of joint ventures, partnerships, training and apprenticeship opportunities, equipment acquisition and development of management capacity, all the great things we want to see in the cost-effective projects...

And the people? The young offenders? Have we got a situation figured out for how we’re going to house them? Are we in a holding pattern right now? Are we planning a more permanent facility or program for them?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. That concludes my point of order.

Just to follow up, have we done any planning? Do we know what we want to build? Do we have land lined up? Where are we? How fast can we move once we do get the resources to be able to put in an actual facility?

Madam Chair, I have no further questions. I would just ask the Minister to be alert to possibilities for some common sense approach that will avoid these high IT costs that the government seems to be generating. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to follow up a little bit on the questions about the ePerformance module that will replace the existing manual performance evaluation process with an expectation of efficiencies. I know that there are concerns about performance appraisals and, certainly many of us have spent time in government and know that the frequency of appraisals and so on were not very reliable, that the results of the appraisals didn’t follow through to appropriate action and, you know, whether good or bad, appropriate action or recognition and so on. I just can’t help but wonder if...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the motion points out, the federal legislation will have an even higher impact on our citizens than elsewhere. The NWT has the highest or nearly the highest incident rates of many minor crimes. Typically, we have worked with these first time offenders and small crime offenders to get them back on track, but now with the two-year minimums, there are serious consequences. Of course, one of the results will be, as mentioned in the motion, the loss of culture, the loss of these young people being embedded in their family and community life where they can develop...