Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as a government, for any agreement we enter into with other jurisdictions, other governments, municipalities, the transfer of funds with NGOs, we do enter into multi-year funding, but it is based on the fact that we have a cycle that we follow that every year has to be approved by the Legislative Assembly. So we can’t put an unconditional grant in place where for nine years they can do things or for three years. We have set up block funding agreements on a three-year basis with municipalities so they could do better planning, but that is also conditional...

Mr. Speaker, just to highlight some of the hardware we took home; besides taking home the championship trophy for the masters division we had the most valuable player, who was also the top goalie, our goalie, Mr. Tom Williams.

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He happens to be with us today. I shared the top defenseman with another player from a team locally.

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So, Mr. Speaker, again congratulations to those boys, and we’re looking forward again to coming back and making a trip down to Yellowknife for the Balsillie Cup. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, our process as the Government of the Northwest Territories is through the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs. They work with our community governments throughout the Northwest Territories, so there is contact there. Once this review is done, we will look at it and see if we have to make changes overall as a government. Thank you.

Maybe the Member can answer for me where the nine months comes from. An agreement is signed April to March, so the funding is known for that year but the planning cycles may be somewhat different. So if I could get some clarification there, please.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It’s my pleasure to introduce today in the gallery Mr. Tom Williams who is not only a top goaltender for the Inuvik Ice Devils, but he’s also the chief operating officer for the Gwich’in Tribal Council.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, seeing that the NHL is officially off for the rest of the year, I would like to give an update of some of our own home-grown talent in the Northwest Territories.

Mr. Speaker, back in December, December 17th to the 19th, the First Nations Cup was held here in Yellowknife and Inuvik sent down a team into the masters division, which is I think a better name than old timers. I must say that the Inuvik Ice Devils showed remarkable gamesmanship and won the masters division and took home a fair bit of hardware as well, Mr. Speaker. I feel even better saying this...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Member is right; as we initially met, I referenced the fact that we were waiting on waivers to be signed. As has it, with lawyers involved from a number of different parties, that hasn’t gone as smoothly as we would have liked it to. But they will be executed today. Once those are executed, then the receiver can once again go out there and seek other interested parties or return contacts that other interested parties have made. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It’s not in conjunction, but that information will be very useful as we go forward. Mr. Braden has touched on an area that is something we are beginning to look at overall. The subsidy programs and what we have available, there are quite a number of them, as he stated, that better coordination would definitely be an asset to those who access the program and for ourselves as accounting and for identifying the kind of support we give residents of the Northwest Territories. But the work that’s ongoing right now within FMBS around the Territorial Power Support Program is...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, a comparison of the 2003 actuals to main estimates is one that’s difficult. For example, if we went back a little further than that to the 2003-04 mains, at that time we would have seen an identified travel budget in the area of $194,000. So the actual mains, as they were built at that time, we were estimating travel to be in the area of $194,000. Actual dollars used at that time were $64,000. From that point on we’re going from mains to mains, 2003-04 mains to 2004-05 mains. We’ve budgeted a lower amount in 2003-04, recognizing that there was going...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the funding that we required to cover the rest of the loss that was identified was found from other program areas within FMBS where we had lapses. We would have turned that money back over to the consolidated revenue fund, but, realizing this loss was there, we then applied that money to the loss instead of turning it back over to the general revenue fund. Thank you.