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.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Our expectation is that total expenditures will be about $6.6 million from GNWT monies, and $4.6 million from CATSA over the entire project, the $11.2 million. So in this year, we're looking at $3.4 million, and then the balance will show up in the main estimates in subsequent years.

Thank you, Madam Chair. In May I went to the FMB with two parts to a submission; one for the operations and maintenance of the Legal Services Board clinic in the amount of $266,000, and I asked at that time for fit-up costs as well. The FMB asked my department to do more work with Public Works to refine the fit-up costs, the capital costs. So we came back to FMB on August 22nd, or it was approved on August 22nd; it would have been submitted some weeks before that. So the space was advertised, on August 9, 2004, and the close of that request for proposals was August 27th. So the decision...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I would just like to reiterate that what we are talking about here is the expenditure and not the cost recovery in this supplementary. I’m sure the Minister is prepared to and the government is prepared to listen to advice of the committee on cost recovery. As I said, if it were to be an airport improvement fee it would have to come forward as legislation. The government cannot institute an airport improvement fee without it coming back to this House for approval. So there will be an opportunity for debate if that would be the method that the government would...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I said last week in response to Ms. Lee, there are a number of new staff who have been hired. There is a five week training program for 12 new correctional officers that started on October 4th. At the end of the five weeks, those people will move into positions that will help to alleviate the situation. The issue of the numbers of staff, as I also said to Ms. Lee last week, the North Slave Correctional Centre has a bigger staff complement than did the old centre and staffing up has required some work. In spite of that increase, there has been a reduction in the...