Floyd Roland

We will work with the Department of Justice to get that information.

The arrangement between ourselves and the federal government has a base to it. As we proceed from our end to communities looking at project by project, that changes how it flows. But there is potential that it can recognize the difference in community size as well. The Minister, again, can add more detail.

Mr. Chairman, the area of the supplementary appropriations is something that is, as well, shared, in the sense of the concern the Member has raised.

As this government starts its work, this is the first supplementary appropriation for the 16th Legislative Assembly. The process we’re moving forward with is that the supplementary appropriation would be used for emergencies, unforeseen events that departments were not able to plan for.

As we begin our business planning process, we’re working with departments to ensure that they build into their business plans the appropriate dollars for running...

Once again, Mr. Chairman, the Member is asking between two departments what the assessment rate or what the rate is that the Department of Health and Social Services provides for this area. I can provide him what the assessment rates are under the existing agreement for court-ordered assessments through the Capital Health Authority. The total amount is highlighted at 611. That’s an increase of approximately 450 more assessment days than they had anticipated. What the charges, for example, would add up to — I don’t have a daily rate, but we’re looking at $1,300 a day by the 611 days. Thank you.

Cost overruns on a project — on any project in the Northwest Territories — are a real factor that we have to look at, in terms of the potential impact it may have on us as the Government of the Northwest Territories and our future ability. That's why, as part of the agreement signed during the previous government, a guaranteed maximum price was put in place, as were a pre-funded contingency, insurance, bonding, an independent engineer auditing the construction, and a project management board made up of the Government of the Northwest Territories, the Deh Cho Bridge Corporation and the lending...

Mr. Chairman, this is broken down to $43,000, made up of an increase in the annual salaries of $14,000 and in life/disability insurance of approximately $29,000.

One of the things we look at is trying to keep the same rank as a lawyer or judges in other jurisdictions. We also work through the Remuneration Commission that is established, and this is the way we do that. Again, it deals with their court schedule and the amount of travel there would be when they fly into communities. I think that’s one of the reasons why the insurance piece is being dealt with.

I have to go to the Minister responsible, the Minister of Community Affairs. He can give details on the overlap or how one fund affects another. Potentially, one may roll into the other. The question about the bundled projects or the…. Previously the Minister responded about bundled projects. That is one of the activities we’re looking at doing: how our infrastructure is not one project by one project. We found they cost substantially higher. But for the actual funding, how it rolls out and the impact on other dollars available, Mr. McLeod can provide that detail.

Yes, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. Chairman, in this area, for example, the Department of Health and Social Services are providing these services to residents of the Northwest Territories and could be to their capacity or, as well, potentially locums filling in, in a number of those cases, as we have in many other cases of specialists.

The court process. There is an arrangement that deals with the Alberta government and the Capital Health Authority, I believe, that provides this service through their court-ordered psychiatric assessments that are conducted, and they have an arrangement through a contract in that area. Thank...

Mr. Speaker, through our departments we’re working with the federal government on a number of fronts trying to take advantage of the dollars that are out there, and how we look at the developments or how we take part in trying to lessen our footprint here in the Northwest Territories in the sense of the impact on the environment. We’ve got our own greenhouse gas strategy and are building on that. The Department of ENR is, again, doing its work. As we set out our strategic initiatives, it’s another avenue where we as the 16th Assembly can further look at the initiatives that we want to...