Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of NWT Housing Corporation. Will the Minister commit to review the process it went through from posting the tender 6074 to awarding it? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes. Minister responsible for Housing NWT.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, I will look at that review, and I will follow up with the Member. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I also will ask the Minister of NWT Housing if she can commit to looking at some you know, just do a random of the tenders that have been awarded in my community from her department and just do a random check just to see if they are following the process that they should be following and if she can commit to that? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And yes, to the Member, I will follow up with that as well because there should be annual or else monthly quarterly checks at least when we're looking at these tenders going out for us to be more consistent with what it is that we are putting out there. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'm going to also ask for a commitment that the Minister will, when ensuring when departments are putting "local content," that they are indeed local and they are indeed under defined like, the definitions we have in the BIP. So they're companies that local suppliers. You know, if I can go and I can purchase from them publicly, then they are a local supplier with a local content, if they are a resident there and companies there. So that's what I will ask to make sure that future tenders, if they're given local content and BIP adjustments, that they are and that her department is following up on that. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you to the Member for the question. And I will make sure that I will reinforce the local content that is required with these public tenders going out, and once contracts are awarded that they are using local businesses to complete our projects. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister. Oral questions. Final supplementary. Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And the one last thing that I'd like to ask the Minister is that moving forward, you know, when businesses are deemed ineligible, that that be public for people like, for all, because, you know, I think that this is a thing that we need to stand by our NWT businesses and if people are defaulting and spending public dollars not in the means that they are supposed to, then those lists should be made public. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will have to take this and review it with the department, and I will follow up with the Member. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Minister. Oral questions. Member for Kam Lake.
