Sandy Lee

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the copies, but I would like it read into the record. Thank you. So I would like the Minister to state the breakdown for other expenses under Commissioner's office. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to pursue questions on the BIP issue. Mr. Speaker, last Friday in Hansard on page 826, the Minister of RWED…My question is to the Minister of the Housing Corporation. I do want to say that the Premier and Ministers McLeod and Bell on Friday made commitments to this House to provide various stats and figures, based on which they made the decision to waive the BIP. It was supposed to be done before session and we still don't have it, so I have to pursue more questions. Mr. Speaker, I am not clear about how these decisions came about to waive...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the answer, but $1.6 million out of $4.3 million leaves me with almost $3 million. Can I get the dollars attached to the travel and transportation, materials and supplies and any other big ticket items under that? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. May I be allowed to go back to page 2-13, please?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it is a known fact and an embarrassing truth that our legislature is the only jurisdiction in Canada without representation of women in Cabinet. Our sister territory, Nunavut, has really shown us how they can do much better in this regard and I’d like to congratulate them on having chosen two women Ministers in Cabinet; both of them in senior portfolios. Mr. Speaker, I understand fully that under our system of consensus government the Premier does not have full control over who gets to sit on Cabinet, but he does have the power and responsibility to take...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I accept your advice. I would like to know whether or not there is any increase in utility bills from last year’s budget to this year’s budget. Not utility, but power bills, whatever it costs to light the building. Thank you.

I am done with that item. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you. My question has to do with the fees that the schools were charging to students which the Minister has, I believe, sent a directive asking the school boards not to levy those fees to aboriginal students. I understand the position of the aboriginal governments that this is a treaty right for the students to go to school and they shouldn’t be asked to pay, and that’s fine. I’m just wondering about the repercussion that may be in the school system that might have relied on this as extra funding for the school. I’m interested in knowing what the financial impact of that might be...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I should just state that I was right next to Mr. Roland for the last four years arguing for fiscal prudence and I’m behind him all the way. It’s just that when we have to deal with raising taxes and giving a little bit of a million dollar break on a $50 million windfall, I think we have to reconsider that.

Mr. Speaker, my next question is on the $3.5 billion contaminated sites budget and to hear that 65 percent or so will be coming to the Territories. Could the Minister advise this House as to any further information as to how that money will be spent? What do we have to...

Thank you very much. May I just get some indication as to what sort of services are purchased under contract services for $631,000, as well as $1.6 million for computers seems high. Is there something unique about the programs that this division uses? Thank you.