Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, again in the example the Member has brought up around the school and its facilities, when it comes to washrooms and the water facilities, the Department of Education, Culture and Employment would have to establish the project. The work that would be required to either renovate the existing facility or once they’ve identified what work needs to be done, we would become involved in doing a bit of the feasibility work where is it worth renovating or is it time to get into a new facility. Once that work is done and goes through the capital planning process...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the casual employees would be hired on the basis of less than six months. That’s a normal thing for short term, summer employment, short projects that staff or departments did not have enough personnel to do the work. That’s the area of the casual employees, as well as a number of departments who do have a number of casuals when it comes to filling in for facilities that are on a 24-hour operational basis. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the reason we have our stabilization fund is to sort of limit the cost of the product to a certain degree. Then as we start to get to that ceiling, we would put in a request to FMB for a change in the price setup. But the idea is cost recovery, not on the market situation. So as Mr. Aumond stated, some of the issues that we look at as we go forward…But each community, again, the cost of delivery of the product and the commission charges of the contractor are taken into consideration. For example, on October 1, 2004…There hasn't been a big change in...

Mr. Speaker, I wish to advise Members that the Honourable Joe Handley will be absent from the House today to speak at the Arctic Gas Symposium in Calgary. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, again, the process would be the responsible department, once there’s agreement there that there’s additional space required, would put their plan for that space into the system. If it was approved and dollars were attached to that and identified and approved through this budget process, we would then get involved through Public Works and Services' side on issuing and getting the engineering work done, architectural work and then issuing the contracts for that construction and doing the inspection to the final phase where the building would be turned over...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the work that’s undergoing right now we’re trying to get done within the resources we have available, but we also recognize that with over 180 employees being impacted and how we redesign the Human Resource Service Centre process and go into the regional build up of those, we understand and know that there’s going to be some growth in the areas as we try to make sure we can do this job accurately and get it done efficiently, as well. So there’s going to be some growth when we look at some increase in regional centres for staffing, as well as the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, we can provide that detail to the Members around that. Again, it is accounted for in our financial statements, and I believe it can be found in public accounts, as well. For example, last year we had booked $900,000 for the financing cost as well as the amortization of our facilities. So that was the amount that was booked for last year. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the way the process would work, if there’s a requirement for office space in a community, the department that would be requiring the space would come to us and seek our input as to if there is existing space available. If there is no existing space available, then they would come to us with a requirement for a certain size of space and what they would be needing it for. We would then get involved in that process of coming up with some preliminary estimates and designs. At that point, the department, with those figures, would go forward and see if they...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it is not the intention to phase out the affirmative action policy of the Government of the Northwest Territories. What we have looked at are a number of the reports that were done by previous assemblies, and Members of previous assemblies and one of the recommendations in one of those reports suggests that the name be changed to employment equity and that’s one of the considerations we’re taking into consideration as we go about the review of the government’s affirmative action policy. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, we do account for this as a grant in kind; that portion, when we do our audited financial statements within the petroleum products division. We do identify it at that stage that it is a grant-in-kind, the capital costs in that area. So it is identified at that stage.

For the other work that's happening around subsidies within the government, right now the petroleum products subsidy is not included in that, but there was a feeling that once that was established and moving forward, that that would be another issue that we would look at. But it is not...