Jane Groenewegen
Statements in Debates
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I've got three seconds here. I'm still telling you it's going to take less time, it's going to take no more time to go to tender for a private developer to lease you the space. You don't have to worry about the capital dollars; it's just O and M. You can just lease the space. It's going to take you no more time to put out that tender than it is for the tender for all of the upgrades, and that's the point I'd like to make, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.
Thank you, Minister Roland. Committee members, general comments.
Thank you, Mr. Roland. Mr. Braden.
Thank you, Mr. Roland. I guess the rules indicate that people can only speak to the motion once. It doesn’t matter if you were the mover of the motion, you still only get to speak to it once in Committee of the Whole. That’s not the rule in the House, in the Chamber, when we are in session, but in Committee of the Whole that is the rule. I hope that provides you with enough information. The motion is in order. To the motion.
Thank you, Mr. Roland. Anything further, Mr. Menicoche?
Thank you, committee. Mr. Roland.
Community operations, $35.882 million.
Total department, $1.150 million.
Thank you. Education, Culture and Employment, operations expenditures, not previously authorized, directorate and administration, $59,000; education and culture, $6.8 million; advanced education and careers, $1.007 million; income security, $696,000; total department, $8.562 million.
Mr. Chairman, the more I hear the less believable this story becomes. You know, it is no wonder we have a capital infrastructure deficit in the Northwest Territories when you look at the kind of money and the way that we’re going about doing things. I mean, it’s no wonder we don’t have enough money. So in answer to the question, how long have we known we have a problem, we’ve known we’ve had a problem for four years. Now there’s no money budgeted. We’ve known since 2002. This is 2006. So we’ve know for four years that we have a problem and that a D-day was coming here on this with the fire...