Brendan Bell

Thank you again, Madam Speaker. I wish to table the following document entitled Northwest Territories Mental Disorder Review Board Report, Minister of Justice, February 2005.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. The answer is no. We don’t do it anywhere else in the territory. We aren’t going to start doing it at this beach. We aren’t going to go out and decide we are in the life guarding business. It isn’t our jurisdiction. The city can do it if they choose. I believe the cost is $20,000. They have lifeguards available that they use at the pool. They are set up to be able to do this. They are insured to be able to do this. Obviously it would cost them some money and I respect their decision to not staff lifeguards at the beach because that would mean having to reduce...

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I don't believe the city intends to provide life guarding services this summer at the beach. It's been a couple of seasons now without lifeguards at the beach. I think the Member knows the history. We provided, in past, a contribution that the city turned around and used to provide life guarding services. Obviously we are not in that business and don't do that, but we had provided a contribution in the past. The city felt that it wasn’t significant enough. We entered into a negotiation which eventually failed. The city left that negotiation feeling that if we...

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Many, probably all, of our NGOs are fiscally challenged and could use more funding. I think that’s certainly a good discussion for us to have as a government with committee. I would certainly be prepared to do that. We are going into the business planning process and I am sure many other Ministers, as well the Minister of Health, would be prepared to have those kinds of discussions. We do rely on our NGOs to provide very valuable service right across the Northwest Territories and it is important to ensure that they have adequate funding. Thank you, Madam Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I believe the approach, as the Minister of Finance has indicated, was to make the capital investment required to get the facilities up and running. The government would make that capital investment and it would be recouped through fees that would be collected. So I am not sure of the length of time in terms of the RFPs and how long contracts would be awarded for. The idea is to be able to operate on a break-even basis. We don’t want to subsidize this on a go-forward basis. So fees would pay for the operation and fees would also be used to recoup our initial capital...

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, I wish to table the following document entitled Fair Practices Office Annual Report, January 1 to June 30, 2004. Thank you, Madam Speaker.

Thank you. Just to be clear, the fees that are applied to the containers, once the recycling takes place, only some of that is recouped by the consumer. The rest of it goes to pay for the operation of the program. So there is a deposit and some of it is refundable and some of it is not. The amount that’s not, goes to pay for the program, both for operations and also to recoup the initial capital investment made by government. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Madam Speaker, I also wish to table the following document entitled Annual Report on the Activities of the Rental Office, 2004. Thank you, Madam Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Three of the local factories are approved as northern manufacturers and are drawing down on the rough made available for northern manufacturers. The Deton'Cho Corporation, Canada Dene Diamonds that involves a company, Schachter and Namdar, is one of those companies; Arslanian with their original factory is another; and the third will be the new Sirius factory owned by the Arslanian shareholders. The one that is not drawing the 10 percent is the Laurelton factory which has agreements outside of that process.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, I wish to table the following document entitled Government of the Northwest Territories Contracts over $5,000 Report for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2005. Thank you, Madam Speaker.