Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that we report progress.

Motion carried.

All right. That’s Inuvik, yeah.

Laughter.

So the original agreement to negotiate the contract was signed off by Minister Handley, and two subsequent appropriations related to the cost of the Inuvik schools were both signed by Mr. Roland, as the chair of the FMB and the Minister of Finance, correct?

The technical review of the Diamond Jenness Secondary School and the work that was planned there, where we actually saw numbers in a capital plan…. It’s pretty hard for me to believe or accept, as one of the MLAs for Hay River, that this whole thing had to be pushed back two years because of an educational review that was going to take two weeks.

I mean, the Minister of Education just said that the educational review was going to start being conducted by a consultant sometime in October and it’s going to be concluded by the end of October. So I’m sorry, but I’m having a hard time buying into...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. When I left off my question before on the Inuvik schools — this is just to recap — Mr. Miltenberger said that the authority was signed off by then Premier Joe Handley. That was in support of the negotiated contract, but the actual appropriation of funds to the Financial Management Board was signed off by the then Finance Minister, Mr. Roland. Then, when there was a discrepancy or difference, I guess, between the original project that would have been signed on by FMB and the current project, was there need for any subsequent approvals by Cabinet or FMB with respect to...

Thank you. When the price of the project changed, was there a subsequent approval process or signing off of any record of decision required?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’m not sure there’s anything else I can say about the need at the Diamond Jenness Secondary School. I think this motion says it. We have devoted an extensive amount of airtime to the issues at Diamond Jenness over the past few days. So with that, I’m going to ask for a recorded vote on this motion.

So just to be clear, then, it wouldn’t be normal for that same MLA to be signing in their capacity, whatever role they play in Cabinet, on that same contract. That would not be within keeping of the policy that Mr. Miltenberger has outlined.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To the motion. I’ll be supporting this motion. I think that this particular project, coming up the way it did with no substantiation, no compelling reason why this needs to be built, is just another example of this government’s pathetic planning.

I guess it pays to be the Premier, you know? I guess $150 million in your home community when other communities are getting nothing…. And you come up with lame reasons to push back capital in other people’s communities in another region. We find pathetic reasons to push it back. But, boy, bring a $21 million project on the...

Thank you. Who was the signatory to that sign-off by FMB?