Floyd Roland

Inuvik Boot Lake

Statements in Debates

Debates of , (day 39)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Weledeh, that Bill 18, Appropriation Act, 2006-2007, be read for the third time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Debates of , (day 39)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as I stated earlier, we did provide departments relief through previous supplementary appropriations to cover their increased costs for I guess a certain time period where we’d come to a position where we had to increase our budgets without adjusting the long term. It was felt at the time that because of the volatility of the market, that we had to give it some time to see if, in fact, things were going to continue to climb or settle down. As we see it now, the prices did get very high there for a bit and have come down a certain degree, but we feel...

Debates of , (day 39)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, this increase that we’re asking for here does cover the 2005-2006 fiscal year, but we have not made adjustments in the 2006-2007 fiscal year. After the work is done on reviewing this, doing some of the tracking of historical data there, we’ll have a better idea of where we think we’ll need to be and at that time come forward with a request for more funds if that’s the case. Thank you.

Debates of , (day 39)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. More just to the fact of the upgrades that are listed here. As I stated earlier, when we, as a government, get into leases for either office space or clinical space, when we initially enter those agreements and move in, we, as a government, still pay the cost for fitting them up for use by the departments. As well, in mid-term if we decide to change the use of that facility or put additional requirements for the use of that facility, we again are responsible for them. So that is not a change in the way we've done things about the leases we have in place to date.

I...

Debates of , (day 39)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the Northern Strategy money that we’re flowing out to communities for their use, we have set some guidelines as to impact on future expense by government. I gave them a fair bit of latitude as to what they have selected as being important to them and where they would identify this money for, what they would identify the money for. We’ve got a number of examples of projects that have rolled in. For example, on the Hay River Reserve, they are looking at an arbour, a cultural camp, recreation equipment, and an adult education centre. They are looking to...

Debates of , (day 39)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I did give out some of the reasons for why we feel there’s an increased cost. One, departments were able to cover some of the shortfall from their own budgets. But for more of the detail, I’ll have Mr. Voytilla provide that level of information.

Debates of , (day 39)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll have to provide that later. I don't have that information at my fingertips at this moment. Thank you.

Debates of , (day 39)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we have our processes in place when it comes to disputes with contractors. I have laid out what the intention is from our government’s side, and our focus in this area was to repair the flooring situation. Thank you.

Debates of , (day 27)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the situation that we face right now in Sachs Harbour, along with our problems with the water line itself, as I understand, the water trucks in the community actually had problems as the garage up in Sachs Harbour, I understand the furnace ran out of fuel, froze up the unit. There was a team that went up there to do the repairs, I believe on the 6th or the 7th of this last week to make those types of repairs. So my understanding is that that is now either underway or been repaired, as well as looking at the water treatment plant itself. But as for...

Debates of , (day 27)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the latest information I received, we had a contractor go up there again to thaw out the line and look at why it froze up again. As I stated last week, between the designer of the water treatment plant, Public Works and Services, and Municipal and Community Affairs, we're working on looking at what needs to be changed. The feeling is that the long piping going from the treatment plant into the water lake is probably the reason why the insulation on the piping has deteriorated, and we're putting a project together to look at replacing that whole length of...