Thank you. Why the drag, Mr. Minister?
Debates of Sept. 25th, 1992
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The Chair John Ningark
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Titus Allooloo Amittuq
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We had the documents in place for Cabinet's review for quite some time. Because the Legislature requested that all boards and. agencies of this government be reviewed, we were told to hold awhile a minute, until the Boards and Agencies Committee has dealt with all the boards of this government. All the documentation is ready for Cabinet, but since Cabinet has not dealt with it, we are not able to appoint boards. Thank you.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Zoe.
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Henry Zoe North Slave
Mr. Chairman, could I ask the Minister if there are any applicants on file that have been dealt with? Are there any applications to utilize this fund, on hand with the department, and if there is, I would like to know the number, how many applicants are there?
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The Chair John Ningark
Mahsi. Mr. Minister.
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Titus Allooloo Amittuq
Mahsi. No, none.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Mr. Zoe.
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Henry Zoe North Slave
Mr. Chairman, with this trust fund, I trust my good friend, Mr. Allooloo, the Minister responsible for Renewable Resources, would make every effort to try to get this board in place, so that we can disburse the money that we have in the trust fund to combat the animal rights groups, to protect our fur industry.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you, Mr. Zoe, you seem to have hit the right spot. Mr. Minister.
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Titus Allooloo Amittuq
Yes.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Shall we continue with the line by line?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Page 12-12, contributions, this is a detail of grants and contributions.
Contributions of $2.016 million. Mr. Gargan, Member for Deh Cho.
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Samuel Gargan Deh Cho
Page 12-12, or page 12-21. Mr. Chairman, with regard to disaster compensation, this spring there was an unusually amount of water all over, including Mr. Nerysoo's riding, and Mr. Zoe's riding, you have $15,000 and people have lost cabins and have ski-doos that will no longer operate because they have been sitting in the water too long, rifles, paddles, boats, the lot.
This year must have been the worst in the history of the north, where there was an unusual high level of water. The Minister is aware, when he was Minister of Transportation, that the water was really high, it went over at the ferry levels, and destroyed a lot of areas.
I am wondering whether, or not, that is enough, $15,000 hardly seems enough to cover a cabin. How is the Minister addressing this? I am sure some of the Members have already written to you for assistance to certain people in their constituencies. Can I ask the Minister if there is any action going to be taken regarding this?
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you, Mr. Gargan. For the correction, I read page 12-12, it should have read page 12-21. Mr. Minister.
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Titus Allooloo Amittuq
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That $15,000 figure is a holding figure, since we do not know, as a department, how much money we are going to spend in any particular year, we use that as a holding figure. Some years we spend it, some years we do not spend that amount. This year, we will probably spend more than that. What we do in those particular cases, where the requests are more than $15,000, either we fund it within or we request supplementary funding for the contribution that we make in the disaster compensation.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Mr. Gargan.
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Samuel Gargan Deh Cho
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So, the $15,000 does not stop the Minister or the department from saying, "look, this is all we have, sorry, but you are going to have to do without", or does the Minister still have that discretion, to make approvals with the anticipation that under special warrants, or appropriation, he will recover the money?
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Honourable Minister.
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Titus Allooloo Amittuq
The Member is correct, as long as the applications are within the guidelines set out for compensation. Thank you.
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The Chair John Ningark
Mr. Gargan.
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Samuel Gargan Deh Cho
The one issue that I wanted to address, Mr. Chairman, is the replacement to the Special A.R.D.A. program. Under which detail heading is that?
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you. Mr. Minister. Mr. Minister, this is not a football game, carry on.
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Titus Allooloo Amittuq
Mr. Chairman, there is no replacement for the Special A.R.D.A. What we do have is the Community Harvesters Assistance Program, which we fund small expenditures to individuals to allow them to get boats, ski-doos, and that sort of thing. For larger purchases, they have to go through Economic Development. Thank you.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you, honourable Minister. Mr. Gargan.