Robert Hawkins

How do you validate those types of things when they create those formulas? Do you do a follow-up or an audit throughout the process to ensure that they’re complying with their BIP document? I mean, quite often we hear that someone lowballs a bid but then they turn around and, you know, right after they get the bid and they sign their contract for that particular project, they then submit a claim for an adjustment. How do we make sure that they’re delivering on what they promise?

The other question at the same time, I guess, is what does Public Works do specifically to try to foster an...

That was the missing component there. Can I be sent a copy of the report once it’s been done?

I think that’s enough of a cursory intro to know exactly what that is. Just one other last question. Under drug treatment funding program, Nats’ejee K’eh Centre Youth Treatment Program, are there any deliverables under this particular section? We have a section worth commitment, requiring $345,000. I’m just wondering if there’s any reporting or deliverables that we see sent to the Legislature.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’m wondering if the Minister could provide some details on the NWT National Diabetes and Chronic Disease Surveillance System.

That’s okay for now. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I move that this committee strongly recommends that the government take immediate action to identify additional funding for health promotion and education initiatives in areas such as healthy eating, active living and early childhood development.

Thank you. In large public infrastructure projects, and I dare not attempt to define what that may or may not be, but has there ever been any consideration that instead of writing the general to sign off on the fact that they paid their contractors or subcontractors in good faith, has the government ever considered writing the subs to ensure that they’ve been up to speed or paid up to date? Now, I realize that every dispute can’t be a simple yes or no, saying yes, we’ve been paid up to date or no, we haven’t. So I suspect and I recognize the difficulty there, but there would be ways of...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I move that this committee strongly recommends that the government take immediate action to identify the funds necessary to allow for the establishment of ongoing contribution agreements for the management and operation of day shelters.

Madam Chair, I am very curious so I will certainly see that. Sidestepping this, but sort of along a similar vein, does Public Works ever drop a bit of, and I will just use the term – it may not sound friendly, but – the black listing sort of process where we have had contractors who have been unable to fulfill their obligations, whether they’re architects, engineers, contractors and construction, for major projects? I’m not talking about delivery of stationery. I’m talking about meaningful ones. How do we report on those types of things? Do we have a way of ensuring that we just don’t keep...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It’s clear the Minister is confused. He’s not the Minister of community. He is the Minister of Education, and that’s what I keep trying to say. It’s about mandate. There is no mandate; therefore, there is no support at the board level and at individual schools.

Would the Minister of Education be willing to expand the mandate and support the schools and the school boards who would like to deliver this program, because teachers tell me it’s a critical skill and there are youth that would like to learn this. It’s not a community-based program. It’s a school-based program I...