Floyd Roland

Yes, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I believe it is a leased building.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, for our own policy and the requirements of that, if we can have the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs provide that information.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Our information was total area including all health authorities and the department falls in the area of $6.7 million. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I think we already have in place a fairly good system of informing Members when we have to make changes in the budget process, as well as request more funding. As stated in this case, as we became aware of it and started looking at this, started to do some of the review in this area working with departments, we’ve come to the point where we know we will not have the room within FMBS for 2005-2006 fiscal year to absorb this type of spike in the budget itself. Yes, the Member is right; between areas where it is, for example in this case, part of the union...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta, that Bill 20, An Act to Amend the Income Tax Act, No. 2, be read for the third time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as the Member pointed out, within this sitting we just passed a bill that would allow the petroleum products division within Public Works and Services to buy futures, as we would call them I guess, price hedging on the futures market on the commodities we need for our communities. That does give us, I guess, more tools in our toolbox to be able to try and lessen the impact of increased costs for fuel in the communities served by the petroleum products division. There is some risk in that. For example, if we just use the previous year’s occurrence, the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Voytilla can provide that level of detail as the work around budget preparations when we had started to realize there was a shortfall. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank Members for their input in this. At this time, I also want to recognize joining me here at the table has been Mr. Voytilla and this will be the last defence of a monetary bill for the Members of this Assembly and for the Government of the Northwest Territories.

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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, in the area of the fuel prices in the NWT, the Member is correct; the cumulative impact of this supplementary appropriation in fuel prices is almost $4.3 million. The area where we talk about impact from 2003 is we haven’t given departments an ongoing increase, so what we have dealt with them in other ways is to give them a one-time offset or a partial offset to that, but not have adjusted budgets since 2003. We did a price comparison since the year 2003 to 2005-06 and now, measuring that impact, we have agreed that we will have budgets adjusted to match the...