Floyd Roland

Thank you, Madam Chair. All government assets are covered under our insurance program. We are self-insured for the first $10 million, but we do buy insurance for over and above that. So on an annual basis, if we had losses of some small equipment in a community or region of a few hundred thousand dollars, we would end up paying for the full shot of replacement. That would happen until we hit the $10 million figure. Then we would kick into our insurance program that we paid for. So it’s a cumulative amount. It’s not going to be on every case, but it adds up to that first $10 million we...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To do this right, I'll have to provide the Member with an actual accounting breakdown from the centre back to…When you pick up your product at the store you pay a fee. How that money is collected and then how local depots operate from that point forward we will supply that information. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In the interim, before setting up a formal process, I will commit to starting a process from within my office. If the Members are aware and have suggestions themselves or know of constituents who have some suggestions, they can contact my office directly. I will start a log as to what suggestions are being put forward, and respond to those that would send in their suggestions. So I'll start from my office and we'll work forward from there. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have been working with Stats Canada to ensure that what happened in 2001 does not reoccur in 2006. So we have begun our discussions with Stats Canada in working with them to ensure that the under coverage that occurred in 2001 doesn’t occur again. We are being proactive in working with them in how we feel the previous one didn’t work for us. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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...