David Krutko
Statements in Debates
Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 62-16(4), NWT Main Estimates 2010-2011, and would like to report progress. I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.
I believe your question comes under contribution, so can we... Mr. Bromley, do you have a question under grants?
Moving on to page 6-13, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, operations expenditure summary, directorate, $4.244 million.
Minister of MACA.
Ms. Bisaro.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I believe that MACA still has a very important role to play, especially helping communities. As he noted in his opening comments, there are communities struggling out there with regard to taking on their own rules and responsibilities as community governments. He identified the area of capacity and that’s one of the biggest challenges we face in some of our communities.
Mr. Speaker, I think it’s crucial that this government has to not only identify those areas, but demonstrate how they are working with communities to improve that situation, especially in...
Mr. Bromley. Okay, we’re on page 6-17, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, operations expenditure summary, public safety. Mr. Yakeleya.
We’re on page 6-33, Municipal and Community Affairs, sport, recreation and youth, operations expenditure summary, $5.617 million.
General comments? Detail. Okay, we can turn to page 5-41, financial summary. At this time I’d like to suggest we defer that page. Agreed?
Just in regard to the latest report on the needs surveys, how soon is the department going to get back to us on how they’re going to deal with some of these statistics indicating core need, adequate housing, and stuff like that? I know that we’ve just concluded the allocation of units, because I was pointing out to Mr. Beaulieu that Colville Lake is getting $375,000 yet they’re at 95 percent core need. For that amount of money I don’t think we can really solve the problem. Hopefully this department will be able to identify those areas of intention, especially now that we have a needs survey...