Wendy Bisaro

Thanks very much for that update. Good to hear. I wanted to also go back to the issue of bandwidth and the demands that are being placed on our system, particularly because of education and health. I’d like to ask the Minister or the DM what the plans are for the department to accommodate our ever-expanding needs for IT. Thank you.

Right on. That is good to hear. With regards to the projects scheduled for this year, Fort Good Hope and Inuvik schools, are they still in the plans to be demolished in 2011-2012? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Guy. I guess I would like to know if there is going to be any sort of an evaluation of the pilot project prior to sort of expanding throughout the rest of the Government of the Northwest Territories systems. Thank you.

I’d like to give the Minister a bit of a scenario which, unfortunately, occurred. A family was offered an apartment with Yellowknife Housing Authority. They ended the lease in their current place. Then a policy intervened and three weeks before the end of their current lease they were advised that, no, they had arrears and they had to pay the arrears before they could move into their new place. The response basically from Health and Social Services was that policy did not allow them to go into this place.

I’d like to ask the Minister, if this is a program of last resort, should staff members...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a question here related to fisheries. I noted fisheries is mentioned on page 12-28 where it talks about programs to support fisheries and then it talks about commercial fisheries here in a contribution. In that fisheries is a federal responsibility and waters are a federal responsibility, can I get an explanation as to how we are involved in fisheries, why we are involved in fisheries if it really is the feds who ought to be looking after this? Thank you.

On the occasion of Education Week, I would like to salute the Commission Scolaire Francophone on their achievements, and I have to highlight and salute Ecole Allain St-Cyr, which sits in the riding of Frame Lake and provides excellent francophone education to the residents of Yellowknife. Thank you.

Okay, I wondered if that was why, but the Minister said most of the revenue. So if there is some revenue from parks, do we just sweep it under the mat, or is it recorded elsewhere? Thank you.

That’s great. Thank you to the Minister and thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thanks to the Minister. I wasn’t actually asking about monitoring, although I am very glad to hear that we will be doing some monitoring, I was asking about an evaluation of the new system. To me, those are different things. Monitoring is seeing how things are performing and gathering facts, which is what I heard the Minister say. Evaluation, to me, is looking at the system, looking at the facts, and determining whether or not this is what we want to continue to do. We have a two-year period right now in terms of the money that the GNWT is putting into the system. In the two-year time period...

Mr. Chairman, thanks for the explanation. I guess I need to attend the business plan discussions for Transportation and ask him that question on every page where there is other. Most other departments have managed to get rid of that. I did notice that there are small amounts in some cases, but there is a $2 million amount somewhere in one of the divisions. I would really appreciate if the department could look at breaking those things out next year. Thank you.