David Ramsay

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess if that’s government practice to spend this much money on an 1,800 square foot office location, that to me looks fairly exorbitant, really. I don’t know if there are going to be gold-plated doorknobs or gold-plated toilet seats in this place, but it begs the question of what is the money going to be spent on? One-hundred-fifteen-thousand dollars on an 1,800 square foot office space? It’s an awful lot of money to be spending on an office. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Ms. Lee, further questions?

Thank you, Madam Chair. Is the Minister aware of what that portion of the leasehold improvements the landlord will be paying is? Thank you.

Ms. Lee, that is a bit of an aside from what we are talking about, but I will allow the question. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I find it difficult to imagine that the Minister is unaware of what’s happening in his department in terms of wrongful dismissal suits. I would also like to know what measures are currently underway to get the amount of overtime being paid out at North Slave Correctional Centre under control. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess it’s splitting hairs, but, again, we’re going into this and once you start the renovations at the airport -- and they’ve already been started, Madam Chair -- you enter into the full expenditure and you also have to take into account the cost recovery of that expenditure. I don’t think the Minister’s response was good enough, in my mind, Madam Chair, in terms of what Cabinet’s rationale for proceeding with a project that’s $11.2 million and, by anybody’s best guess, could go off the rails quite easily as other capital projects have and end up costing the...

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Ms. Lee. Oh, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister of Justice, the Honourable Charles Dent. I’d like to start off by saying that last Friday I started some questions saying that the department and the Minister were non-responsive to some questions I had. They were responsive, Mr. Speaker, but maybe just not with the answers I was looking for. I’d like to apologize to the Minister if I upset him with the questioning.

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The question I have today for the Minister, Mr. Speaker, is last week I talked about a list targeting employees at the North Slave Correctional...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I know some of my colleagues were asking questions earlier; that $3.4 million is included in the $6.6 million, is it not, Madam Chair? Thank you.