Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am also wondering how many of the 22 recommendations that were contained in that report have been acted on to date. I think there were some good recommendations that came out of that work. Specifically, one of the recommendations related to the protection of the asset of the Power Corporation as it relates to the franchises for providing power in the NWT communities.

At the time, we were going through an interesting scenario where other people were coming in from outside and trying to bid on what they thought were profitable communities in the North, to...

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. General comments. Mr. Hawkins.

Agreed. Thank you. Asset management, grants and contributions, total grants and contributions, $572,000.

Systems and communications, total systems and communication, $200,000.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. I am going to ask Mr. Ramsay now if he would provide the Standing Committee on Governance and Economic Development's remarks on the review of the main estimates for Public Works and Services. Mr. Ramsay.

Next on my list for general comments I have Mr. Pokiak.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Systems and communications, total operations expense, $799,000.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I’m going to respond to the Premier’s ministerial statement today on homelessness. I was struck when I was listening to this today, Mr. Speaker, with all of the nice government and fancy jargon that goes with this and it just absolutely sometimes is amazing to me the words that we find to describe things. The average person must wonder what in heaven’s name it means.

Mr. Speaker, the Premier said that homelessness is a complex social problem. It is a complex problem; I agree with him. However, I think the solutions might be a little simpler than what we are...

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Operations expense, total operations expense, $7.763 million.