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Highways, not previously authorized, $1.729 million.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We all heard from the Member for Nunakput the concern with housing and people being evicted and also the amount of arrears that we have compiled over the last number of years.
Mr. Speaker, in previous governments there were two communities that seemed to have had a problem with arrears and all the other LHOs did not have the arrears that we’re seeing today. Yet, Mr. Speaker, some unique efforts were made from different communities, and I’ll use the community of Tsiigehtchic in my riding. They worked with the tenants to work off their arrears by demolishing old Housing...
That is my concern, is that we don’t seem to have the resources or the capacity to assist these people to get them to the table. We have money there to pay people that have signed on. I think it was $170,000, yet we are asking for $2.2 million. So there’s a small portion there for that consultative process, but what is there to find ways of working around the challenges we are facing? I thought we were going to be close in this process.
There was a bilateral arrangement back in December. Everybody met in Edmonton after Christmas. We came back to Yellowknife to get together and then basically...
More of a comment. Total department, not previously authorized, $9.709 million.
Next I have Mrs. Groenewegen.
Total department, not previously authorized. Mr. Bromley.
It sounds to me that you’re talking about one Aboriginal person represented on this panel of three. How do you pick the Aboriginal person that’s going to sit on the panel? What’s the process going to be used to identify that person or what’s the process going to be used to ensure that you have someone there that’s representative of the whole Northwest Territories?
Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Miltenberger.
Thank you, Mr. Minister. Welcome, witness. At this time I’d like to open the floor for general comments in regard to Tabled Document 53-16(3), supplementary appropriation. General comments. Does the committee agree to detail?
I just have a question going through the detail of that $725,000. There was $70,000 for Aboriginal participation. Could you clarify what that $70,000 has been spent on?