Sandy Lee

Thank you, Madam Chair. I don’t think I got the answer on why. At least Mr. Roland, and I know he’s not here, at least his assertion that chances are there are no other spaces, I think it was just a matter of decisions that officials had to make with the set of circumstances that it had. I had a question, now I’m just losing my thought here. My understanding is a special warrant is for money that has already been spent. Is that true? Or is it just allocated and sitting in a bank somewhere or account somewhere waiting for renovations to start, and if that’s the case right now there’s money...

Thank you, Madam Chair. We have before us a special warrant for $115,000. My understanding is that that is a ballpark figure. That is something that they had to allocate before they could go out for RFP. There is a very good chance that this might be higher. It may end up costing the government more to renovate this. It might be less; I don’t know. Minister Roland indicated that the landlord is very cooperative in this regard. The landlord says that there are other plans to make some of the retail stores into office space, and this fits into their plan. That landlord has agreed to pay...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to get more information on the cost of this. The information that Minister Roland provided states that the lease space would cost $379 per square metre. I know that is a metric number, but I don’t know what that is in footage, but could I just get a confirmation from the Minister as to whether this is a yearly figure? By my calculation, that is about $36,000 a year because I think we are looking at 95 square metres of useable office space. I would like to know what other costs will be there, because this is located in a mall. In a mall, there are...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Justice:

What is the number of cases involving staff inmate confrontation and assaults in the last three years at North Slave Correctional Centre?

How many employees at the North Slave Correctional Centre are currently on transfer assignments, special leave, sick leave or other leave, for how long and when are they expected to return?

What is the staff complement required for the new North Slave Correctional Centre in comparison to the old facility, and is it being met?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don’t have it in writing, but I believe the former Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation, Mr. McLeod, almost wrote it in blood that he would not be ordering the 22 new units without a full review of how much of that contract could stay in the North. Could the Minister indicate to me as to whether or not he has the same kind of commitment? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I move that we report progress.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation and it has to do with the housing policy in the last six months or year or so. There were huge debates about this employee market housing policy where the Housing Corporation purchased 22 mobile homes to be placed in small communities in order to make this housing available to employees of government, whether they be teachers or nurses or other professionals. I’d like to know whether or not the corporation has done a review of that and where the Minister is with that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think I'm on the verge of doing three to zero here. It is in line with this because of the fact that this whole money for renovations to allow for an explosive protection system and different conveyor belts to make sure that all the baggage could be X-rayed and stuff, that is the money that is being sought here. It is that renovation that is requiring the Department of Transportation to look at all of the configurations in order to fit everything in. I am encouraged to hear that the Minister and his department are having talks with the proprietors of the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question was what has the Minister done as a Minister to make sure that there is no perception or occurrence of anything wrong going on? I think he could explain that because it’s his department, it’s his employees…

Thank you, Madam Chair. My apologies; I mixed up two different items there. For Yellowknife air terminal building I’m just not sure why the money was spent in this way in that we have been aware since the September 11th attack that there have been lots of requirements being imposed on various airports, the Yellowknife Airport being one of them, to upgrade their facilities and baggage areas and better security and such. I’d like to know why it is that this was not incorporated into a main transportation budget and what transpired that required this to be spent, the money to be allocated in this...