David Ramsay
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Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, during our deliberations on this, I had a discussion about the $3 million for Pile Inspection and Repair Program. I didn’t get answers that I really was looking for. Obviously, what happened in Inuvik with the school and the pilings failing, that happened. What I see this as is a knee-jerk reaction by Public Works and Services to go out and do some of this work without really truly knowing what the cost is. I would suggest it’s much more. If you get into a situation like you had in Inuvik, it’s going to cost a tremendous amount of money to repair pilings...
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Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Minister.
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Mahsi, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. Minister.
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I will call Committee of the Whole back to order. Committee, there was a bit of an oversight on page 11. Can I draw your attention back to page 11 of Supplementary Appropriation, No. 1? We failed to mention special warrants. I am going to call special warrants, $182,000.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, in my comments I guess I should have spread some of that irresponsibility factor over to the Minister of ECE in this, because I think somewhere along the line there has been some irresponsibility here and as a Member of this House I don't appreciate that too much, having to agree basically to flush $3.5 million down the toilet after two to four years. What have we got after two to four years after we spend the $3.5 million? We've got no guarantees at all. It's not a good expenditure of public funds.
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Thank you, Madam Chair. This is the second time and the last time. That’s right, I am closing it up.
Madam Chair, perhaps we could go to Minister Roland.
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Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Minister.
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Mahsi, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. Minister.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again I didn't get a breakdown of what the $320,000 is going to be spent on. I'd like that. In addition to that, doesn't Public Works and Services, just as a matter of regular day-to-day business, keep track of, you know, the disposition of office space, future needs, how they're going to react? Like isn't some of this work already, or should have already been done? Isn't that somebody's job, to be looking after that type of issue? You know not just in Inuvik, but here in Yellowknife or Hay River or wherever the government leases office space, shouldn't somebody...
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Thank you, Mr. Roland. Mr. Hawkins.