Floyd Roland

Mr. Chairman, for those who have had an opportunity to visit anyone in that facility, whether it be the young offenders or the adult facility, when you drive up, you realize there are no barriers to getting to the main facility itself. There are no gates, no fencing leading to the public area. If anything were to happen or someone were to manage to get out of the facility itself proper, there would be no barriers for them finding their way within the city. That is one of the concerns of addressing the fencing around both facilities. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, they are still using some of those funds, as our year progresses. Until we have the year-end, to look at what the carryover is, we wouldn’t be able to give that detail. We could probably go back to the Department of Education, Culture and Employment to work with the school board to come up with what is remaining, a snapshot of a certain day and point in time. As for the actual amount of carryover, that will have to wait until year-end, when we do our final sup of the year.

Mr. Speaker, all the Member has to do is look at the date when that report was published, and he can answer his own question.

Mr. Chairman, as the Minister stated, in making this motion and needing some more information…. I would encourage the Members, before we read the next motion if there is more to follow, let’s have that clarity or ask about the detail before we actually make the motion, because now we only speak to the motion.

Speaking to the motion, we can't support this action, as the Minister stated earlier. The integrated services delivery model has been in the works for many years. The department had worked on how it would deliver health care across the Northwest Territories, with Stanton being a...

Mr. Chairman, this project has been on the books for some time. Work has been done with the school board along with the department. When the fire happened, there was insurance money, but the Government of the Northwest Territories topped that up significantly to get additional portables put into that facility. By doing that, it has given them more breathing room for the number of students in that facility.

When we looked at our overall capital plan and its existing situation, we had to go back to our departments to request that they review their plans to see what could be deferred or re–cash...

Mr. Speaker, I guess if nothing else, we have to acknowledge the Member’s passion to ensure that her questions get asked on a regular basis from the 15th Assembly into the 16th Assembly.

The fiscal plans for this project were known. We can provide a chronology of these things that happened. We could even look at Hansard when questions were asked by the same two Members about this specific project: of the parameters, of the additional money the Government of the Northwest Territories is willing to put into this project that is over and above the ferry contract, the ice-road crossing. That’s been...

Mr. Chairman, we do realize, as the Government of the Northwest Territories, that further steps need to be taken in reducing the footprint we leave in this land that we live in, with the recognition that much of our communities need this because of supplies and a limited amount of time to get supplies into the communities. The majority is either home heating oil or vehicles that are running in the community that require this amount to be stored for meeting the year-round shipment.

As we move forward as a government to look at other initiatives — whether it’s heating our businesses or buildings...

Mr. Chairman, I’ll give you some background to this, and then I’ll pass it on to Minister Lafferty for some additional information.

Mr. Speaker, the total amount of the project that is being financed by the Deh Cho Bridge Corporation doesn’t fall onto our books because as the project is established, it is the Deh Cho Bridge Corporation that is seeking the money and going to lenders. We are a part of it, yes. As has been said in this House, as has been laid out from the start through a number of factors — that is, the toll structure — it is also a part of the fact that we’re taking money on an annual basis that we put into the ice-road crossing and the ferry crossing

As well, as was made known months before the last election...

Yes, Mr, Chairman.