Thank you, Madam Chair. Under ECE my questions are more built around… I feel like I have raised this question many times. I would like to ask some details as to where I may find some future investment if not present investment into both the Mildred Hall Elementary School as well as the Ecole J.H. Sissons School. I know that they get on the capital plan, then they are taken off the capital plan and then they are back on and off. I have to tell you it feels like we’re doing the hokey-pokey dance with those particular schools. It’s very frustrating for the school board as well as the two schools...

Although I’m not Mr. Bromley – I don’t wear a green cape to work with the environmental symbol on it – I do care equally about some of these particular concerns, and I’m just curious as the opportunity when we do this do we ensure that we tackle this particular problem rather than booking it against a particular liability. But I think Mr. Guy said there isn’t a particular problem at this spot, if I understood him correctly, but maybe… I see him waving his pen not in a mean gesture way, so I suspect he would like to reply. The issue for me is I’m just curious on how we address that particular...

But, like anything, silence is assent and if I don’t express that concern under the capital process right now, then it could be seen as one perspective is the one to go with. So it’s important to get that out there now and I assure you and assert to the Assembly that we have disparities, whether they’re daycare spaces, some free within the GNWT institutions in some areas and some in other places in other communities where we have to charge full market rent and we have a lot of challenges on how to balance that particular one. I mean, I don’t want us bringing in another problem that’s… You...

Many businesspeople are taking the initiative to join the Certificate of Recognition program, the COR program, from across our territory from big communities to small communities. It’s becoming a territorial initiative. To add one more, it’s actually becoming a national trend where many jurisdictions, whether it’s the provinces or even the federal government, are leaning towards this is the type of recognition that you need to have in order to apply for service contracts, construction works, et cetera. Recognizing that there’s been a commitment from many small businesses here in the Northwest...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. When growing up I remember such youthful optimism around me from everyone when we always talked about the future. I’m reminded of this when I see in the gallery today so many young people here. I remember hearing from people about where they wanted to go, what they wanted to see, and certainly we always heard about what they wanted to be. However, I can never recall anyone ever telling me, or anyone, for that matter, that they wanted to be homeless. That’s why today I want to recognize and certainly give great credit to the work being done by the Yellowknife...

Madam Chair, I move that we report progress.

---Carried

If I could just get some clarity on what internal planning dollars for Sissons actually means and the size. Actually, let me rephrase the question. Will a planning study be done? I guess all that really matters is this: Will a planning study be done in this particular fiscal year, 2012-2013? Will that be done in a way to identify the work that needs to be done to retrofit Sissons School? Thank you.

Now, on that note, when we house one offender in a particular facility, what would it cost per day to house that particular offender per day in our facility? In other words, we would have to have security, somebody at the gate, somebody at the door, somebody to cook, somebody to clean. We would have to have the full costing of that particular facility, because we can’t run them empty. That said, would the department be able to provide that detail?

Thank you, Madam Chair. On a separate issue, I think I heard the Minister say that there was one female inmate at this particular time within the custody services under the GNWT. Does the department have an estimate as to what one inmate costs the system in the context of full costing? At the same time I’d like to know to what Nunavut would pay the Northwest Territories for us to house one inmate in our facility. If I could get that breakdown between the two numbers.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise to support my colleagues in this particular motion. I understand very well, and in some respects I acknowledge the need for a conservative agenda where it is a law and order type of government.

There are issues of crime that need to be tackled, and tackled harder, but it’s very difficult out there who believes on a typical process, everyday process, that more jail time, longer jail time really solves the root causes of crime. Very few people would argue that particular situation.

I agree with colleagues that have said serious crime needs to be addressed differently...