Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Whenever this question is brought out, the Minister of the day will talk about the great benefits and I’m not denying them. Brand new building, it is great. We’re going to see some efficiencies in heat and power and everything else. We have to remind ourselves here that we’re putting a disruption, a market slump disruption in the commercial real estate market by virtue of us building our own building.

Will the Minister commit to overlooking, seeing, and updating the numbers so that we are indeed dealing with proper square feet or square metres as the case may be?

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Members, again, page 5-47, NWT Housing Corporation, information item, the executive. Any questions?

Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you to the Minister and the delegation here today. I was very impressed that we have a new RCMP position that deals with family violence as a coordinator. Knowing full well that spousal violence in the NWT is almost 10 times the national average and 85 percent of those, women are usually the victim, so it is nice to see that happening. We will be looking forward to seeing the fruits of that newly installed position. I do caution the Minister, though, that we need to make sure to move forward with this new position, that we get the proper measuring tools and...

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. It appears, committee, that we’re concluded with general comments. Does the committee wish to proceed to detail?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. For that we’ll go to Mr. Anderson.

I don’t disagree that we’re talking potentially in metres and square feet, the fact remains that these numbers are coming right from the buildings property managers themselves and, as such, I would recommend that we should get those numbers in order and make sure that we are talking apples to apples.

That said, my calculations come up with a 140,000 square foot estimate, which on absorption rate that we’ve been using in Yellowknife here over the past number of years is about 10,000 square feet per year, thus putting us about a 14-year potential shelf life of office space available. Has the...

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Before we go, Mr. Menicoche, can you please indicate which page? We did conclude, by agreement. Which page is that, Mr. Menicoche?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Moving on, we’ll have Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Moving on with general comments, the Member for Frame Lake, Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Page 5-50, NWT Housing Corporation, information item, finance and infrastructure services.