Robert C. McLeod

Mr. Chairman, we think it’s very important too. That is why we have come forward with a request for fire emergency training, and a lot of it we would obviously target a lot of those communities that have some challenges and need some training. We would obviously have to target those communities first to make sure that they are in a better position to respond to any emergency that is in their community. I can assure the Member that we will take his advice and we will target a lot of the communities where it is found that they are in most need. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, I do know for a fact that a lot of these communities, LHOs do have an inventory and they keep track of the appliances they have in there. Having said that, if the Member wants written confirmation, we would be able to provide him with as much information as he needs. Thank you.

I’m sure that information is there somewhere, but I can tell the Member that we have 45 percent of our tenants who are paying $32. There are 21 percent of our tenants that are at zero. We do have some statistics and I’ll try to pull them together and give the Member all of the information he needs to make a very informed recommendation.

Mr. Chairman, the folks that purchase the land followed all the process as they were laid out. This particular piece of land is outside the community’s boundaries. Its block land transfer was outside the boundary. They are in the process of going to lease the land from the Commissioner, but we have had a lot of back and forth with the community and with the Norman Wells Land Corporation. They have followed the process as we have laid out. It is not like we sold or leased the land out from under them. There is still quite a bit of Commissioner’s land within town boundaries that, if they choose...

I’m sorry, Mr. Chairman. I was having a discussion here and I missed the Member’s question.

Mr. Chairman, we are not quite sure exactly what we are going to need yet until we do the assessments to determine the types of specialized trades or the types of specialized training we will have to offer. If we are able to provide that with the folks that we have on staff, we will do that. If we are unable to, then we will have to go to an external contractor. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, we will be pleased to provide that information to the Member.

No, we haven’t. We’ve had some preliminary discussion. I’ve asked the corporation to put some numbers together for me, but we really don’t have anything formal put together yet.

The Member can probably ask his question in the School of Community Government once we get to that, and I think it’s right on the next page.

Mr. Chair, we are looking at coming forward with writing off debts exactly as the Member had stated. There are some deceased people that are still showing. We’re planning on writing those off and we’re looking at other hardship cases. As a corporation, we have been, for the last little bit, looking at the number of different situations we find ourselves in in each community, deceased people, hardship people, and we do plan on coming forward with writing off a lot of those much older debts. Thank you.