Michael Miltenberger

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have our eye on that fire. At this point, as the Member has indicated, the fire season is over and the resources are, for the most part, not around. We know that the one resource that we can pretty well count on for the next six months is going to be Mother Nature, between the rain and the snow and the cold, to knock that fire down. Whether it will go down deep enough to actually put it out, we’ll see in the spring, but that is the state of the status at this point. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The amount we’re getting is $26.5 million and, yes, this $8.706 million is part of that fund. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There was a cheque forwarded, or an amount forwarded of $400,000. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, I don’t have that level of detail, but I can tell you that this year there were significant efforts made to make sure we had enough avgas and infrastructure to deliver avgas in a regulated way that would meet the stringent standards for aircraft in the regional centres. The challenge is to try to figure out where the fires may occur, because once you move any significant amounts of avgas into a community or a region, chances are, if you don’t use it, you’re not going to be able to send it back, so it’s a sunk cost. We are very cognizant and we try to plan correctly. Inuvik was a...

I would suggest that explicitly, maybe not explicitly but at least implicitly, the Legislative Assembly Building Society regarded that the Legislative Assembly would make the right decisions. In fact, as I pointed out, they are going to come to the dinner and they are going to join, with the rest of us, the mortgage burning, the fact that we have this lovely building paid for and it was all under their watch that they accomplished this and they did a fine job.

Everything has been accounted for. Lawyers have looked at it. I appreciate that there are some concerns by Mr. Hawkins in the joy of...

Yes, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. Chairman, $21.407 million is what it all adds up to with the projected surplus that they are just finalizing now, possibly $1.1 million. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, the Building Society decided to cut the cheque because they wanted to wind up the affairs. They have been in business for 20 years. If they would have had to set up a trust, they would have to continue on as a legal body until the trust monies were all spent, which would have meant more meetings next year and they wanted to be finished now.

I think we should recognize the fact that they did a yeoman’s job, a fine job minding the public purse for us, helped us get this building. Now their role is finished and they made that determination and handed over the funds to us. Now they...

Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following three documents, entitled Government of the Northwest Territories Mission to Kiruna, Sweden, and Munich, Germany: Mission Report; NWT Water Stewardship Strategy, Implementation and Progress Report, April 2011 to March 2013; and NWT Water Stewardship Report Card, April 2011 to March 2013. Thank you.

I can tell you where all the fires are but I don’t have that level of accounting detail in terms of the aircraft costs versus the breakdown of detail to the degree that the Member is asking, so we will commit to get that for committee. Thank you.