David Ramsay

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the government.

Can Public Works and Services, after consulting with another department, authorize demolition of public infrastructure without consulting with the affected MLA(s) and standing committee? If so, does this contravene existing policies?

Who approved the publication of the tender to demolish Dene K'onia?

What was the correspondence between Public Works and Services and Health and Social Services regarding this issue?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried.

---Carried

Thank you, committee. Mr. Hawkins.

Agreed. Thank you, committee. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, if you use the same rationale the Minister just mentioned, they would have informed us and consulted with us last year when the money was transferred from Yellowknife to Hay River, and they didn’t. That’s the point I’m trying to make, Mr. Speaker. The Minister did not answer this question: Why were Regular Members of this House not advised? You’re going to demolish a piece of public infrastructure and it doesn’t matter what community it’s in, the scope of the project changed. We’re fed one story last year and had to force feed another story this year. Why...

Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried.

---Carried

Thank you, committee. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I’d like to pick up where my last questions left off, and that was before the Minister of Public Works and Services. I listened closely to him and I’m having a great deal of difficulty trying to understand what one Minister, the Minister of Health and Social Services, is saying in terms of the relocation of TTC and the disposition of the Dene K’onia facility in Hay River and what the Minister of Public Works and Services is saying. So on the one hand you have the Minister of Public Works and Services admitting that an error occurred in the ad going...

Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried.

---Carried

Thank you, committee. Mr. Hawkins.

Mahsi, Mr. Yakeleya. To the motion.

Thank you. That is the Report of the Review of the 2004-2005 Annual Report of the Information and Privacy Commissioner. Thank you, committee. Recognizing the clock, I will now rise and report progress. Thank you.