David Krutko

Mr. Chair, as we all heard from the federal government, I thought there was a deadline. I think it’s August 31st, or whatever. It’s a federal deadline and realistically these are federal dollars. Is there a guarantee that we can carry over? Because I know some of my communities still have not been able to deal with their solid waste sites because of the location outside the community or because the way the contracting requirements are under the program in which the costs came in well over the budget that they’re working from. The same thing applies to water treatment plants and whatnot, that...

In the past one of the ideas was to start selling off some of the government housing units regardless if they were surplus housing or they were considered that come to in the life retrofits, it basically might be cheaper to just dispose of those units than trying to put any more money into them. I think we have to realize we have less money and we need to find ways to bring in new revenues or quit throwing good money after bad, knowing that we have to dispose of those assets, get rid of them, get them off our books, and take the O and M money or maintenance money and reinvest it into new...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, it’s an application-based program and certainly Fort Simpson and Fort McPherson have been responding to accidents on the highway. They’ve had situations where people have died on the highway and they’ve had to go up and respond to that. I think that from the experience of those responses that the community has gone to, that we would have to ensure that they’re not equipped but also allow them the training they require to do those types of responses. In some cases they’re pretty gory and I don’t think anybody wants to come upon an accident and realize that there...

I believe they had followed policies, that’s why I have 45 percent unemployment in my riding, which I never had three years ago, but under the regime of this government, it has forced companies to leave my riding and go to operate out of Yellowknife and get work in the southern region because they can’t get work in their home communities. I’d like to ask the Premier if it’s fair that all the contractors doing work in my riding are coming from Inuvik who are getting $70 million of capital expenditures in that community and yet my communities are going hungry because of unemployment rates at 45...

Again, Mr. Chair, I’d like to ask the Minister in regard to emergency measure plans that are in place, how many are in place and operational and how many are still being worked on by communities?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, I do have concerns with the loss of $7 million in the area of grants and contributions. I think that’s a major cut to the programs that a lot of people depend on, and knowing that there’s probably going to be less money but more demand, I’m wondering if the Housing Corporation has considered looking at maybe cutting back on some of the delivery side of the programs knowing that you have less dollars to allocate. Maybe look at less program officers on the ground, put the savings back into the programs to offset the $7 million cut from the federation government. I...

One of the things we’re seeing more and more with fire departments and volunteer firefighters is that they’re taking on more responsibilities such as highway rescue and search and rescue, with people going through the ice. We’re finding that we’re seeing more of those types of incidents happening where people are having to do search and rescue. Again, it’s usually the volunteer fire department that has to end up doing a lot of these things, because either the resource people aren’t doing it or we have to depend on someone else to do it for us. But what we’re finding is that it’s usually the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just gave the Minister two letters lately from Fort McPherson and from Aklavik in regards to housing contracts and put in without local tendering or basically allow for some sort of local preferential treatment be treated for these units going into my constituents. I would like to ask the Minister, can he assure me that those contracts will have a fair airing that will go to Cabinet and the Cabinet will make the decision to go or not to go in regards to the contracts in my riding.

Thank you. Any more general comments regarding Municipal and Community Affairs? General comments. If not, I’ll ask the Minister to respond to the general comments so far. Mr. McLeod.

Again, for clarification, royalties? What royalties did you have to pay for the remaining $12,000?