Charles Dent

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don’t have the exact percentage of time that lawyers attend JP court. It’s not very often in the Northwest Territories because, as I mentioned, they only attend for show cause hearings typically, or when the terms are being set for somebody’s release. The exact percentage I can’t provide, however, it’s not very often. It’s not a practice that has happened anywhere across the Territories. The role of the court worker is to attend JP court and watch for situations where a lawyer should be involved and ask, in those circumstances, for the case to be set over to the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I can’t explain why the security requirements have been set up as they have. I have to accept that people who have looked at the situation have decided that in order to make sure our system of air transport is safe, that they have designed things to work around it. I can only say that we, as a government, feel it’s necessary to follow through with these expenditures because we think it’s essential that we live up to our responsibility to keep the system safe and still ensure that people can fly from the Northwest Territories to airports that are in the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. No, I wasn’t saying that at all. I’ll say again what I said. That $5,500, the way the Member laid it out, was paid to someone who should not have collected the money; therefore, they owe that money back no matter what. They would never qualify for remission even if they had contacted SFA to have it put on hold for a while. It would always have had to be paid back. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. You may have to ask the Minister of Transportation to confirm this, but my understanding is that after January 1, 2006, a 737 will not be allowed to take off from an airport where this kind of security system is in place and land at another one like Edmonton. So as of that date, this will be a system that is enforced all across Canada. It will not be possible to fly that size of airplane to an airport like Edmonton from anywhere except an airport that has this kind of screening process in place. Perhaps, Mr. Chair, we can confirm that with the Minister of...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I indicated, in the policy, it is stated quite clearly on page 16 of the Student Financial Assistance Student Guide that if a student comes to SFA, says they’ve gone back to school full time, can illustrate by filling in form D, that the institution agrees they are enrolled in a full-time program, their loan is put on hold. Now, if that hasn’t happened, if the student doesn’t work with the department on a timely basis and the debt gets to be somewhat old, it gets transferred over. It’s quite clearly set out in the program guides that this is liable to happen. So...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think this question can more appropriately be answered by the Minister of Transportation.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. No, we have no intention of getting back into employee housing. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I’d like to make it clear, so that members of this committee understand, that the government is not being provided this information either. CATSA says that it’s classified information and will not provide information on the levels of security at airports across Canada. Each one, they say, is an individual situation. They are saying that no two are the same and that each one is based on the study of traffic, the volume and where the passengers are flying to and from. Then an individual solution is set for each one, but they won’t tell anybody what the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have been talking with my colleague, Mr. Krutko, on numerous occasions, as recently as the lunch hour today, about the need for us to coordinate the plan for next year’s market housing so that we can find out from the DEAs and DECs where the demand is and just exactly what the demand is for, whether it is two or three bedroom units, but to make sure that we are responsive with what the expected demand is. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to refer that question to the Minister of Transportation.