Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Housing who, I'm sure no one more in the territory, wants the Fort Good Hope seniors complex to open. So my first question is when is that going to occur?
Thank you, Member for Yellowknife North. Minister responsible for Northwest Territories Housing Corporation.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you to the Member. I appreciate this question because it has been we did, you know, have a grand opening last year but once that we did receive the reports for the project, we did end up with some issues in completing the project that were identified by the office of the fire marshal. And one of the key issues was the fire separation. And right now, the corporation is addressing those issues, and we are now underway with the remediation work.
The work will involve electrical, structural, architectural, and mechanical repairs. The electrical contractor is scheduled to travel into Fort Good Hope, and this scheduled travel was for November 8th. And also the structural engineer is scheduled to travel was scheduled to travel as well too, November 8th. A mechanical review is underway by the private engineers and are in an architectural firm for these remaining components. The Housing Corporation is pressing the contractor for a completed remediation plan to confirm the expected occupancy date as soon as possible. And once those reports are received, it would be able to announce an opening date.
Sorry for the longwinded answer as well, too, but there's just a lot of issues that were identified once the project was completed, and we are working very closely with the contractor at this time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to just try and understand how this happened. You know, we cut the ribbon on the building. We completely thought it was complete and open. And then after the inspector, it turns out the contractor, that there was electrical problems, structural problems, fire break problems. Can the Minister just highlight what happened here? How did we build a building with this many aspects of the code that were not compliant and not catch them until an inspection? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I just, you know, really thank the Member for these questions as well because it was sooner, like I was able to receive a briefing on this project and we had actually put this out for tender in two components. So once the project was completed, the deficiencies were identified. And it's unfortunate, and you know, I'm hoping to have that complex opened this year. We did have a commitment last year of March 2022. So I will follow up with the Member and let him know if we're still going to be having that building opened this year. But also the other thing that we ran into complications with as well was COVID, the restrictions, and also finding contractors to get in and being able to repair and address those specific issues for the opening of the complex and the occupancy. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm hoping the Minister can explain what the costs are here. You know, we thought this building was complete, and I assume there is some sort of there was new tenders for different contractors to come in and remedy this. It's been closed for a year. I don't know how much of this falls on GNWT or some poor contractor. Can the Minister just give us a sense of how much this delay has cost the GNWT? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don't have those numbers with me at this time. I will follow up with the Member as well. But the corporation is working very strategically to try to minimize those costs as well. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister. Final supplementary. Oral questions. Member for Monfwi.
