Thank you, Mr. Ng. Mr. Minister.
Debates of Oct. 19th, 1994
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Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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The Chair Brian Lewis
Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. What we would do in those particular cases is to work with the divisional board and the CEC in addressing that particular matter.
Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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The Chair Brian Lewis
Have you concluded, Mr. Minister? Okay. Mr. Ng.
Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
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Kelvin Ng Kitikmeot
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to ask the Minister, when he says he will work with the divisional board or the CEC, would his department undertake to solicit whether or not it is required or would they wait and see if requests that come forward from these divisional boards or from the local CECs before they would take a look at that type of facility? Thank you.
Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
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The Chair Brian Lewis
Mr. Minister.
Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As a department, we wouldn't get involved in soliciting that information. That is generally a responsibility that we now leave in the hands of the divisional boards or the boards to determine whether or not that's a need that needs to be met by our school programming.
Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
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The Chair Brian Lewis
Thank you, Mr. Minister. I don't have a list as to who has made their opening comments yet, so, Mr. Dent next.
Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
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Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just another couple of questions or comments relating to the Minister's opening comments. I am just wondering if I could ask the Minister for an explanation of how the dollars were allocated in the Canada/NWT infrastructure program. I understand from his comments that it will be administered in a similar fashion to the NWT worker training fund. I assume that the distribution was done the same way, but I was just wondering if I could get, for the record, an explanation of the principles that were used in determining how to allocate the funds among the communities of the Northwest Territories.
Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
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The Chair Brian Lewis
Thank you, Mr. Dent. Mr. Nerysoo, when you are ready.
Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta
Just one moment. We do have the formula and the basis by which we agreed to it. Generally, what we have to do is deal with the allocation nationally, and that was "not employed community" divided by "not employed NWT" times $3.5 million. I believe that is the basis on which the calculation was originally made.
Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
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The Chair Brian Lewis
Okay. Mr. Dent.
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Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Was that formula used for every community?
Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
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The Chair Brian Lewis
Mr. Nerysoo.
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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta
Yes.
Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
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The Chair Brian Lewis
Mr. Dent.
Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
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Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake
Looking at the allocations, I see there were a number of communities where their number is $25,000 or $50,000 or $1 million, sort of even dollar figures, and I am just wondering, how, with the decimal in there, you could possibly
wind up with even dollar figures like that. So perhaps the Minister would like to tell me just where the math works here.
Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
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The Chair Brian Lewis
Do you want to try that one, Mr. Minister?
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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta
Yes, Mr. Chairman, it was rounded off, and just for additional information that I failed to get out, the final allocations were based on results from the 1994 NWT labour force survey. The other thing is, the final allocation or the total available for program will also be adjusted to the distribution maximum share allocated to a community of $500,000, and the minimum share allocated to a community is $12,500.
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The Chair Brian Lewis
Does that answer your question, Mr. Dent?
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Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake
Can the Minister tell me what, if there hadn't been a cap put on the formula, what Yellowknife would have qualified for?
Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
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The Chair Brian Lewis
Mr. Nerysoo.
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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta
Thank you. No, Mr. Chairman. This will be a more serious response. I don't have that calculation here. What we did have was the calculations based on the initial document. I don't have it here.
Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
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The Chair Brian Lewis
Mr. Dent.
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Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake
Mr. Chairman, it is obvious that we're not going to go line by line today, so I wonder if I can ask the Minister to provide that information perhaps tomorrow when we get back into the budget?
Committee Motion 29-12(6): To Adopt Recommendation 3, Carried
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The Chair Brian Lewis
Mr. Minister.