David Krutko

With that, I’d suggest that we defer this department until we receive that information.

Moving on to the Department of Justice, page 6-2, Department Summary, moving forward to 6-4, Community Justice and Corrections, Activity Summary, Infrastructure Investment Summary, Total Infrastructure Investment Summary: $921,000. Before we go to Ms. Bisaro, we’ll just take a five-minute break.

The Committee of the Whole took a short recess.

In regard to this site that was located, I know there’s going to be a request for a cost to clean up the old Arctic College site. There again, there was a request for proposal. There were no takers.

There is also concern in regard to environmental contamination. Has a study been done on the environmental contamination on the site to be remediated for this building to be built?

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. The Minister of Health, Ms. Lee.

Sergeant-at-Arms, will you escort the witnesses in.

For the record, Mr. Minister, can you introduce your witnesses, please?

Can the Minister release the report he mentioned in regard to due diligence that was done by the department so we can see for ourselves exactly what the contents of that report are and what the findings are by way of the effect it will have on to the private sector in Inuvik?

Moving on to page 5-10, Health and Social Services, Activity Summary, Program Delivery Support, Infrastructure Investment Summary, Total Infrastructure Investment Summary: $3.690 million.

Department of Health and Social Services, Activity Summary, Program Delivery Support, Infrastructure Investment Summary, Total Infrastructure Investment Summary: $3.690 million, approved.

I have a similar question on this item. I know for a fact there was a request for proposal for an office space with the option to lease/purchase, but that fell by way of financial or legal ramifications for doing that. But there was a lot of emphasis and effort put out by the private sector to look at this request for proposal. They took the time to develop the proposal, looked at the lease arrangements, and looked at the different options. They did have a building designed and everything else.

We also have the private sector that provides office space in Inuvik, where they made a lot of...

The Minister of Finance, Mr. Miltenberger.

Interjection.

Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 93-16(2), Northwest Territories Capital Estimates 2009–2010, and would like to report progress with one motion being adopted.

Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.