Sandy Lee

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question today is to the Minister of FMBS. It is further to the questions that I asked yesterday, which I am afraid I wasn’t as clear, so the Minister was able to get away with very vague answers. I want to re-ask that. Mr. Speaker, I learned recently that, in fact, the appeal process we have for the GNWT employees are very one-sided. It is a process that the union has not agreed to. It is a process where union representatives can’t even sit in on an appeal of an employee and that there are lots of areas step by step in the appeal process that the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am not still clear as to what went wrong with this budgeting process. Was there something discovered in the two years that this has been in operation that something was not built in physically, or was it just a simple case of underestimating the cost of fuel, power and maintenance?

Thank you. The Minister mentioned that the government has folded in the insurance costs for health boards and I’m assuming that coverage covers the health centres and public buildings that health boards run. I’m just wondering, how does the government take care of the school insurance. Is the government at all responsible for educational boards’ insurance?

Just one last question. Mr. Chairman, does the Minister have any information about how much more we would be required to allocate for this litigation? It appears that it’s in a beginning stage, but I think there might be some information there that the Minister is aware of that would suggest that this would go multi-millions more. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Minister still did not give any information about what criteria the staff has to meet in order to call somebody and say I’m looking for space in Yellowknife and I’m ready to do sole source. Because, Mr. Speaker, as the Minister indicated, of the three businesses that applied, none of them met the criteria. So it was a zero. Nobody met the criteria. So as far as I’m concerned, all the businesses in Yellowknife were entitled to have this negotiation with the Minister’s department. So why wasn’t the Panda Mall consulted? Why wasn’t the old Overlander’s space consulted...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are also to the Minister of Public Works and Services. Mr. Speaker, I must say that every aspect of this contract for the new Legal Aid office is very questionable. Mr. Speaker, I know a little bit about legal aid files; I used to work on legal aid files. There are so many people who don’t get legal aid assistance, and when they do they are doled out two or three hours of legal aid service from a lawyer. Now we’re going to house this program in this most expensive area and I can’t wait for them to tell them, you know, we can spend all the money...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to speak today to the contract DPW has entered into to set up the second Legal Aid office at the Centre Square Mall. Mr. Speaker, going by Minister Roland's answers to Mr. Ramsay's questions last Friday, it appears that Minister Roland is completely content with the situation that the proprietor who did not even meet the deadline was rewarded with a sole-source or, at best, negotiated contract, for what amounts to a maximum of a 15-year lease, in one of the most expensive retail spaces in the city, to open a second Legal Aid office.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my written question is to the Honourable Floyd Roland, Minister responsible for the Financial Management Board.

Please provide the detailed guidelines, policies or regulations that allow for a sole-source/negotiated contract to happen with a party that did not meet the initial RFP criteria for the contract in question.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Minister should check his facts, because he has provided information to us that suggests that, in fact, they did call the business and say let’s work out a deal. Mr. Minister, I still want to know when they did meet the original criteria, so everything was zero based, so why do you only deal with those who applied for it who didn’t meet the criteria? The third one was late in the first place. That should have been just written off right away, and you should have started right from the beginning. Shouldn’t that be the common, sensible way to do that? I also...