Statements in Debates
Mr. Chairman, in some cases we will assist them, as I mentioned in my response to one of the other Member’s questions. There are some uncontrollables that we assist them with. The more money they generate, then the less assistance they would receive and the more money they receive from revenue, they would be able to put that back into their operations. That would keep them out of running a deficit situation. Thank you.
Mr. Chairman, we have budgeted $300,000 for fire emergency training and that is what we intend to use the money for, because we realize the importance of getting out there. We probably have quite a few places that we would have to work with. As I was saying in response to an earlier question, some communities have identified firefighting equipment in their capital plans. We would continue to work with the community, do an assessment with them and have the communities take up the responsibility of bringing in the needed fire equipment with their infrastructure dollars. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have a number of units across the Northwest Territories at any given time that are being renovated. Our preference is that a lot of this work happens during the summertime when it’s easy to do the work, but we run into some situations where the work is taking a little longer than expected. I’m not sure of the particular details of this situation, but I will commit to the Member that we’ll make some inquiries and we’ll follow up and see what is the status of these particular units and I’ll pass that information on to the Member. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We haven’t identified any exact numbers. We don’t have a line item yet for the work that’s going to be undertaken at the Joe Greenland Centre. It is one that we are hoping to bring forward and get approval for, but it’s not a line item in this particular budget. It is work that we are planning on doing.
Mr. Chairman, the short answer is no, they wouldn’t have veto power. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There is obviously a difference and we all realize that between all the communities in the Northwest Territories as to how the rent is calculated. Having said that, I do agree with the Member that there is a difference in the amount of the rent scale.
I will refer to Mr. Polakoff.
Mr. Chairman, it is going to be on a community-by-community basis. Once the assessments are done, we will be in a better position to determine the specialized training that we will need and when we are able to do that, identify that, then I will let the Member know how it affects the communities he represents. Thank you.
Mr. Chairman, we continue to use all Energy Star appliances where we are doing new houses or replace them out. I do know a few programs that have occurred in the past where there was a program to replace a lot of the fridges because they were older fridges, and one community got, like, 75 fridges that were more energy efficient so they were able to go and change the fridges out. The LHOs usually do an inventory of older units so they know exactly what is in their units, what type of furnace they have in there, what make and model number and it goes right down to the appliance. So they are well...
That’s just something that we’re working on right now. I can’t give a specific timetable. You have to understand that we have a lot of folks out there in the small communities that are paying a fairly good rate for the power that they consume, so we have to give that some consideration too. We have to be understandable of that. It’s not one that we just don’t want to rush in blindfolded and throw a number out there. We have to realize that we have a lot of folks in small communities where their power rates are awfully high and they’re not as fortunate as some of the larger communities that...