Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again, thanks for the response from the Minister. I think the work done to date certainly does epitomize that and I appreciate his ongoing interest in proceeding in that cooperative basis.

Is there a possibility for involvement of the Deton’Cho Corporation as an example of the Giant Mine bypass road and other associated projects in the riding? Mahsi.

My colleague from the Sahtu noted that had there been an all-weather road available, the Minister may have made it back earlier as well.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I need to raise again the need for building standards for our communities. Most if not all jurisdictions in Canada provide this and, somewhat mysteriously, this department or this government resists that responsibility. Yet the communities, if you read the resolutions and so on of the Northwest Territories Association of Communities, want building standards and they want support in inspection of such infrastructure and assistance in that.

My general comment is when, oh when, will we get building standards for our communities that will help them enjoy the sorts of...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Transportation, a follow-up on my Member’s statement about transportation projects planned for the Weledeh riding.

In my statement I mentioned the great partnerships that developed, the training and the development of an Aboriginal business and so on. I think we’ve got great progress there. I want to know, first of all, if the Minister concurs with that and is happy with the accomplishments that have been achieved about the investment of this government about the reconstruction of the Detah road.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The Minister mentioned Bill C-10. I want to just follow up very quickly, because, obviously, according to the discussion earlier in the House today – and I know the Minister is well aware and working on this – there are costs associated with this legislation. Just for efficiency, I will ask two questions right away here. Is there any work that the Minister has done on costing of likely new infrastructure needs resulting from the impacts of Bill C-10 that he can report on today? When might be the earliest point when we would expect such needs to materialize as a result...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Very briefly, this House has yet to rule on whether my use of “crimes against humanity” was indeed a wrong use of our language or not. But, obviously, Mr. McLeod believes it was wrong. I believe it was right, but he believes it was wrong and uses that to justify his using bad language or the wrong language as well. Do two wrongs make a right?

I’m wondering if we have a design for the facility, if we’ve actually got that. I want to introduce my last one as the Arctic Tern Facility and our youth facility generally. I’m wondering what the plans are. Is there a budget to deal with that situation this year, that facility? Are we going to get rid of it or tear it down? What’s happening with Arctic Tern and what are we doing with our youth offenders in terms of current and long-term planning?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise on a point of order under Section 23(i) where it speaks to imputing false or hidden motive by another Member. Section (h) makes allegations against another Member and Section (k) is abusive or insulting language of a nature likely to cause disorder.

I would like to draw Members’ attention to unofficial Hansard page 9 yesterday, where Mr. McLeod, Bob McLeod, in speaking in support of Mr. Miltenberger’s point of order in the House said: “I was offended, I guess, when Mr. Bromley lumped us all together as being somebody like Hitler or Pol Pot or General Radek because...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I missed the general comments part there, but if I may, I am concerned and I think it has been well established in the past that there is some urgent need to deal with the women’s correctional centres and we have some serious catch-up to do there. There is some serious crowding in existing facilities, very serious. I’m just wondering what the thinking on that is. I would have thought that would have been a priority. I realize we’re in a very strapped situation this time around and decisions are being made, but I’m wondering why it’s not here and where it sits, what the...

Madam Chair, I appreciate that is a good description of the system, but the key weaknesses have been identified. It doesn’t seem to deal with the frequency of the performance reviews. Once reviews are complete, they are not given the attention they deserve and a strong performance is unrecognized. Those need to be dealt with.

Again, it is no surprise in the House that I am becoming increasingly skeptical of our huge investments in software, especially when we need people jobs and we are continually bringing efficiencies that supposedly reduce personnel costs here. What will this bring us over...