Mr. Speaker, I have outlined on many occasions in this House that there is an independent review of human resource practices that has been undertaken by corporate human resources to examine the practices across the Department of Justice. That will be completed within the next couple of weeks and that will identify whether or not there are any systemic problems with human resources in the department, particularly within corrections. If they identify any problems -- and I said if they identify any problems -- then the department will move to address them. At this point, Mr. Speaker, I have no...

Mr. Chairman, in May, at the same time and the same submission that I asked for the O and M money, I asked for the fit-up money. FMB would not accept that submission at that time. They accepted the bodies, but not the cost for fitting up the space and asked that there be further work done with Public Works to make sure that the estimates were in fact accurate. That work was done and then the revised submission went to FMB either late July or the first week in August. I’m not sure exactly what the date was, but it would be in that two-week period. That’s the timetable that I had to work to...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I am not aware that the landlord has agreed to pick up any of the costs. The Member is right; the $115,000 is an estimate that has been provided by Public Works and Services, based on typical costs that they are finding in doing tenant improvements in other comparable space in Yellowknife. It could be more, it could be less, but we expect it will be fairly close to that dollar figure. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’d like to believe that it’s as good a deal as anybody has gotten, but it would probably be best to ask the Minister responsible, Minister McLeod, to see if he can respond to provide some details of the negotiations.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Good afternoon. Mr. Speaker, I wish to advise Members that the Honourable Joe Handley will be absent from the House today, tomorrow and Wednesday to attend the First Ministers’ meeting in Ottawa.

I would also like to advise Members that the Honourable Floyd Roland will be absent from the House today and tomorrow to attend the First Ministers’ meeting in Ottawa. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, Members may remember that in the June session when asked that question, I had advised this House that we were aiming for October 1st as the opening day for the clinic.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I believe the Member’s figures are accurate. The cost of the space is within $3 a square metre of what we had estimated the cost would be, in going out for class A space, because it is almost exactly what the government is paying at other leased locations for class A space. The amount is actually less than what we had budgeted as part of the $266,000 for lease payments. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Mr. Chairman, Mr. Braden had asked for some outline of what other projects were included in the whole thing. There is about $4.6 million that's allocated to CATSA, and that's what they have agreed to supply us with. There are other projects involved in order to make sure the terminal building lasts for 10 to 15 years. For instance, there's going to be a secure hold room and washrooms, there's going to be new public access, there's going to be non-secure hold rooms and vestibules, there's going to be $600,000 spent on mechanical and electrical and so on.

So there are a whole bunch of things...

Yes, it’s usual to make sure that you have the authority for an expenditure before you are in a position to have to sign a contract to spend the money.

Yes, please, Madam Chair.