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Supplementary To Question 428-12(5): Status Of Tender For Rent Supp Requirements In Pangnirtung
Question 428-12(5): Status Of Tender For Rent Supp Requirements In Pangnirtung
Item 5: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation, Mr. Morin.

Further Return To Question 428-12(5): Status Of Tender For Rent Supp Requirements In Pangnirtung
Question 428-12(5): Status Of Tender For Rent Supp Requirements In Pangnirtung
Item 5: Oral Questions

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Don Morin Tu Nedhe

Thank you, Madam Speaker. As the Member is fully aware, having been on Cabinet before, the Housing Corporation cannot make that decision, to negotiate a contract with one community group. That has to be a Cabinet decision. Thank you.

Further Return To Question 428-12(5): Status Of Tender For Rent Supp Requirements In Pangnirtung
Question 428-12(5): Status Of Tender For Rent Supp Requirements In Pangnirtung
Item 5: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Final supplementary, Mr. Patterson.

Supplementary To Question 428-12(5): Status Of Tender For Rent Supp Requirements In Pangnirtung
Question 428-12(5): Status Of Tender For Rent Supp Requirements In Pangnirtung
Item 5: Oral Questions

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Dennis Patterson Iqaluit

Well, Madam Speaker, my supplementaries are being used up because the honourable Minister, with respect, is not answering my questions. I didn't ask him what the process was, does Cabinet have to decide or does the Housing Corporation have to decide? I asked him what happened after the public tenders were cancelled. Did you not tell all the bidders that the tender was cancelled and that you were negotiating with one company? I would like to get your agreement that I should be able to ask that question again, because it wasn't answered. Thank you, Madam Speaker.

Supplementary To Question 428-12(5): Status Of Tender For Rent Supp Requirements In Pangnirtung
Question 428-12(5): Status Of Tender For Rent Supp Requirements In Pangnirtung
Item 5: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Unfortunately, Mr. Patterson, the rules allow that one oral questions is to be posed along with three supplementaries. If the Minister doesn't answer appropriately to a Member, it's not the chair's responsibility to determine what is appropriate or not appropriate. In the event

that you wish to pursue further questions, that is your privilege as a Member under oral question period. As the rules are now, you are only allowed one question with three supplementaries. Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation, Mr. Morin.

Further Return To Question 428-12(5): Status Of Tender For Rent Supp Requirements In Pangnirtung
Question 428-12(5): Status Of Tender For Rent Supp Requirements In Pangnirtung
Item 5: Oral Questions

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Don Morin Tu Nedhe

Thank you, Madam Speaker. The only reason I talked about the process was to remind the Member that he understands the process. He asked me whether or not the Housing Corporation made that decision and it can't. If it was up to me and me alone, I would have negotiated with a local contractor in the community, by the name of EEPOW because of their past record, but it is not up to me and me alone to make that decision. It is a decision to be made by Cabinet.

Further Return To Question 428-12(5): Status Of Tender For Rent Supp Requirements In Pangnirtung
Question 428-12(5): Status Of Tender For Rent Supp Requirements In Pangnirtung
Item 5: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. The honourable Member for Baffin South, Mr. Pudlat.

Kenoayoak Pudlat Baffin South

(Translation) Thank you, Madam Speaker. My question is directed to the same Minister with regard to contracting. The contractor under the name of Kawtak Contracting Limited is a mixture of southern people and also three local people in Sanikiluaq. I wonder if the Minister was given a letter from Kawtak Contracting Limited of Sanikiluaq? Thank you, Madam Speaker.

The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation, Mr. Morin.

Return To Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Item 5: Oral Questions

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Don Morin Tu Nedhe

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Yes, we did receive a letter from this organization.

Return To Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Item 5: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Pudlat.

Supplementary To Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Item 5: Oral Questions

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Kenoayoak Pudlat Baffin South

(Translation) Thank you, Madam Speaker. What kind of answers can be expected for Kawtak Contracting Limited from the Minister of the Housing Corporation? As the NWT Legislative Assembly, we have always said that NWT companies and businesses would be given priority in contractual awards. Thank you, Madam Speaker.

Supplementary To Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Item 5: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation, Mr. Morin.

Further Return To Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Item 5: Oral Questions

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Don Morin Tu Nedhe

Thank you, Madam Speaker. That letter requested a negotiated contract for, I believe it was rent supp or access units in Sanikiluaq. There are certain guidelines that communities have to follow, as well as the Housing Corporation. One of the major guidelines is it has to benefit local people and northern people. It has to hire 100 per cent local people, then northern people. Joint ventures with southern contractors, I don't think would be considered. So that would be one issue that has to be addressed, is that it has to be 100 per cent local and northern-owned, with the majority local-owned. Thank you.

Further Return To Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Item 5: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Pudlat.

Supplementary To Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Item 5: Oral Questions

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Kenoayoak Pudlat Baffin South

(Translation) Thank you, Madam Speaker. Supplementary to my first question. It doesn't appear that construction was included in the tendering of the contract. I wonder if they were also included. Thank you, Madam Speaker.

Supplementary To Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Item 5: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Minister of Housing and Public Works, Mr. Morin.

Further Return To Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Item 5: Oral Questions

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Don Morin Tu Nedhe

Thank you, Madam Speaker. My understanding, from the letter, they are requesting a negotiated contract from Sanikiluaq and there are no other contractors in that community. They are the only local contractors. So they do meet some of the guidelines for negotiated contracts. But if they are in joint venture with a southern firm, south of the 60th parallel, then that portion would not meet those guidelines so it would be harder to agree to a negotiated contract with that type of company. Thank you.

Further Return To Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Question 429-12(5): Status Of Correspondence From Kawtak Contracting Limited
Item 5: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Item 5, oral questions. The honourable Member for Iqaluit, Mr. Patterson.

Dennis Patterson Iqaluit

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I understand, from the Minister's earlier statements, that the contract for rent supps for 1994-95 are Pangnirtung is being awarded by invitational tender to local companies because there are several local companies to Pangnirtung. I would like to ask the Minister how he is planning on providing rent supp contracts in Tuktoyaktuk, Cape Dorset and Pond Inlet for 1994-95. Thank you.

The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Minister of Housing, Mr. Morin.

Return To Question 430-12(5): Guidelines To Provide Rent Supp Contracts
Question 430-12(5): Guidelines To Provide Rent Supp Contracts
Item 5: Oral Questions

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Don Morin Tu Nedhe

Thank you, Madam Speaker. In Tuktoyaktuk, there has been a request for negotiated contracts. In Pond Inlet, there has been a request for negotiated contracts. In Cape Dorset, I believe there has been a request for negotiated contracts there as well. Thank you.

Return To Question 430-12(5): Guidelines To Provide Rent Supp Contracts
Question 430-12(5): Guidelines To Provide Rent Supp Contracts
Item 5: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Patterson.

Supplementary To Question 430-12(5): Guidelines To Provide Rent Supp Contracts
Question 430-12(5): Guidelines To Provide Rent Supp Contracts
Item 5: Oral Questions

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Dennis Patterson Iqaluit

Thank you, Madam Speaker. If an invitational tender to local companies has been awarded in Pangnirtung, rather than a negotiated contract because there are several local companies in Pangnirtung, if there were one or more local companies in other communities, even where a request for negotiated contract has been made, would it not be fair to proceed by invitational tender so as to give each one of those local companies a chance to bid, as the Minister has done in Pangnirtung? Thank you.

Supplementary To Question 430-12(5): Guidelines To Provide Rent Supp Contracts
Question 430-12(5): Guidelines To Provide Rent Supp Contracts
Item 5: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Minister of Housing, Mr. Morin.