David Krutko

Mr. Speaker, in the case of request for proposals, government seems to do that a lot. I am just wondering in regards to comments made by the Premier, is there a formal request for proposal that has been put out there in regards to allowing the interested parties or aboriginal organizations or formally some corporations in the Northwest Territories to look at the possibility of partnering on some of these large-scale projects.

In regard to the 18 positions for the Beaufort-Delta, what are those positions?

Minister of Health.

Minister of Health.

Clarification, $5.957 million.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Northwest Territories government has been looking at the so-called ATCO proposal. Mr. Speaker, there have been discussions between the Premier, the Minister of Finance and Nancy Southern of ATCO.

Mr. Speaker, with regard to assets this government owns, in excess of almost $200 million, it’s one of the largest assets this government has been able to retain after division. Mr. Speaker, the asset is owned not only by the Government of the Northwest Territories but the people of the Northwest Territories, which was transferred back in 1988 from the federal...

Okay, I’ll clarify. The lack of services to the residents of Tsiigehtchic, that should be about as precise as you can get to the type of service that they get, which is minimal compared to what other larger communities receive and I think it’s the service that we’re talking about here. I think that health care is a right in regards to the Canadian Health Act in which people have to be prescribed health care and that’s what we get the money for from the federal government. I think if we’re going to start determining service on basically some model in regard to the size of a community, the...

Mr. Elkin.

General comments. What is the wish of the committee? Detail. Okay, if we can turn to page 8-8, or page 8-7, we will defer that to deal with page 8. So with that we’ll defer page 8-7 and then once we conclude the department, then we’ll come back to conclude department summary. Is the committee agreed?

Ms. Lee.