Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to outline the steps being taken by the Department of Public Works and Services with respect to the Samuel Hearne Secondary School in Inuvik.

First of all, let me state my appreciation for the combined efforts of those involved, which has resulted in getting students back to class.

Although the classroom portion of the school is back in operation, a great deal needs to be done. Much of the repair work is only temporary. More permanent solutions are required. The foyer and gymnasium remain unusable, and options are being considered to restore...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Weledeh, that Bill 11, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 2004-2005, be read for the second time.

Mr. Speaker this bill makes supplementary appropriations for the Government of the Northwest Territories for the 2004-05 fiscal year. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Thebacha, that Bill 10, Forgiveness of Debts Act, 2004-2005, be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as many have said, it would be easy to sit and vote on it when the call for a vote came up. This is something that I go back to before we elected Members to the Executive Council. It is about your word, Mr. Speaker. It is about when we first meet each other around this table, some of us may know a little bit about each other, especially those who have been in this arena before. Others, we come here and all we know is a name or somebody else telling us about an individual. When we cast that vote we hope to have the opportunity to speak to the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Weledeh, that Bill 11, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 2004-2005, be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Thebacha, that Bill 6, An Act to Amend the Payroll Tax Act, 1993 and the Income Tax Act, be read for the third time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Monday, May 31, 2004, I will move that Bill 9, Write-off of Debts Act, 2004-05, be read for the first time.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Yakeleya has touched on an area that I have referenced on my own in the past when we see a large development happening in communities and the cash flow increases. I think it would be good that we could work with communities, either through the Aurora College process and establish programs, or work with the resource companies themselves when they hire employees to do a part of that. I think there are avenues we can look at and try to encourage that type of service to be available.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as the process is when the department feels they are running a program that doesn’t have the required resources within that department, they would bring a bill forward and it would, in the sense of money bills or requests for more money, come to FMB, which I am Chair of. We would discuss that request at that table and have a vote on it. If a department is able to justify in the eyes of FMB as a whole, the support would be there to proceed and we would identify where we would come up with those monies. So there is a process. The initial stage when there...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There would be a number of factors we would have to take into consideration and look at what specific point of time we would be looking at. For example if we used a total labour income over a 31-year span of looking at all the development, that’s the building of the pipeline, the continuation of running that operation as well as our mining operations, we would look into the area of $2.5 billion being raised totally for income. You break that down into an annual income ranging of about $9 million to about $561 million, again that being total labour income. The...