Floyd Roland

Thank you, Madam Chair. I will keep it short. I agree with what the Member is saying. We need to continue to find ways and work together in the Northwest Territories. I think that is the northern leaders' aspect of how we can work together and put our arguments forward to Ottawa and can benefit all of the residents of the Northwest Territories. It is not about us and them, it is about we, how we can together work and go forward and put that business case in Ottawa about the revenue situation.

Again, as I stated, as a government we will have to look at our own power we have now to do things...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Once the bottles are returned to the depot, they would be the property of the depot they were returned to. The allocation, from my understanding, is broken out from there and divvied up amongst the communities that have the depots. They receive the bottles and would either crush them at their locations or send them south to further recycling. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, we will have that information provided to Members when they go through the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs budget.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, we will provide that information.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The Member raises a number of ideas and points of discussion, and I would agree with him on a number of them. Our formula financing agreement is a very difficult process in terms of trying to have the federal government agree with our arguments and situations. We have continued to work and put our best-case scenarios and business cases forward.

What seems to be becoming more of a norm now is to have any movement require political decision, and we need to continue to do that. I think that's how we can work with our northern leaders; if we can get everybody...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We can endeavour to get that information for the Member. I believe the majority of that is related to the recycling initiative. Right now we do have a fee that we charge to customers that buy our products, and that's the money that's accounted for. Just for information, the numbers that we do have come out of the Liquor Commission report and would refer to 2003 numbers. So we wouldn't be able to give the absolute number for this year, but it's an estimate that they feel that will come up. There are some for import permits identified in the 2003 number. The...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the arrangements we have now with tax-based municipalities are such that they have advantages in dealing with developing lots in their communities through financing and so on. This measure we've taken, although small, is an initial step to try to help the general taxation communities with their ability to develop some of those lots and encourage some development in those small communities that are right now not feeling much from the spin-off effects of other development around the territory. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I am told that that comment on the bottom reflects the fact that the people that deliver, for example, the insurance premiums and so on are not included in that amount. Maybe for the sake of getting accurate information so that I don't get it wrong and confuse Members, I'll have Ms. Melhorn give that detail.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, through the exercise, if we receive new revenues we would have to change our estimates within Finance to show that there are increased revenues that came forward, and then it is the direction of government if in fact we want to set that money aside for future activities or for a potential part of repaying of whether it be a deficit or expenditure. Again, that would require approval of the House. Any money that comes and flows in has to be accounted for whether it is just in revenue in establishing a reserve that would pay out a certain amount. We’ve got a...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the Liquor Act review would be a substantial one. It hasn’t been changed for a number of years. There was an exercise done through the 12th Assembly and the changes were not incorporated at that time. That bill did not proceed, so we are looking at a fairly extensive review through this process. There hasn’t been any money allocated at this time for that review. Through the previous Assembly, there was some money spent on doing the initial work to look at what could be incorporated in that. That amount has been financed from within internal allocations...