Michael McLeod

Mr. Chairman, yes, everything is where everything is supposed to be on this project and the land has now been reverted back to Municipal and Community Affairs and I believe they’re having discussions with the municipality. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, once again, the request hasn’t come to my office. I believe the request did come to our government, but in the life of the 15th Assembly, so it is not something I am currently reviewing. The request I believe at the time went to the Finance Minister’s office.

Mr. Speaker, if there is a suggestion that the Member is making, we can certainly consider them and bring it to the appropriate department. There are a number of rules that have to be followed that we have agreed to as a government with the Commissioner’s position and tax laws and federal requirements that we have to abide by...

The Member knows full well that we can’t provide actual costs until we’re operating a facility. Our costs are all forecasted, as we do with any kind of planning and for budgeting purposes. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think there were about three questions there. The answer to all three is no, we haven’t looked at it. It’s not a responsibility that falls under the Department of Public Works so we haven’t had any requests come to us about some of the suggestions he’s made and we have not reviewed any correspondence to that effect. Thank you.

The short answer is yes. We’ve taken those costs into consideration when we did the evaluation between the lease and our own ownership, government-owned buildings. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, yes, we’ll confirm that $8 million is the amount that’s in the budget for deferred maintenance. We have $3 million in O and M and $5 million in capital.

Mr. Chairman, we have contracts signed for three years with our suppliers. Most of our fuel purchases are based on rack price.

We are considering Fort Good Hope school at the time and the Inuvik school will be down the road, once the new school facility is completed. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, we certainly agree with the Member’s comments about the TSC and the services and especially in the area of health, improving services to our smaller communities. We do provide support across the board. Usually the health authorities are in a position to have their own staff on board to help them with the technical side of the repairs or upgrades and things of that nature, but we also provide broad support to all of the communities.

Mr. Chairman, as I indicated, all of our summer purchases are done and have been delivered. Most of our winter supply is in the communities. We are not very concerned at this point with the prices up to now. We have a fairly good reserve in the tanks in Inuvik. That will help us offset some of the future costs. Right now it is difficult to predict what our summer purchases will come in at. I would expect, as the Member has indicated, that it will come in a lot higher. Thank you.