This is page numbers 743 - 763 of the Hansard for the 12th Assembly, 7th Session. The original version can be accessed on the Legislative Assembly's website or by contacting the Legislative Assembly Library. The word of the day was housing.

Further Return To Question 376-12(7): GNWT Input Into Fishing Negotiations
Question 376-12(7): GNWT Input Into Fishing Negotiations
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Final supplementary, Mr. Patterson.

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Dennis Patterson Iqaluit

Mr. Speaker, it sounds like we're outside the negotiating room when negotiations are taking place which could well affect the interests of potential Inuit fishermen in the Northwest Territories. Will the Minister undertake to actively promote and pursue the interests of the adjacent stakeholders in the turbot fishery during these negotiations and in the process that will take place in the coming year to allocate turbot licences within Canada? Thank you.

Supplementary To Question 376-12(7): GNWT Input Into Fishing Negotiations
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Mr. Arngna'naaq.

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Silas Arngna'naaq Kivallivik

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, I will. In fact, I have met with the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board on a number of occasions and indicated to them that we had arranged for the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board to meet with officials of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. However, the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, having just recently been formed, has had some of their own difficulties in their formation and staffing requirements and trying to address many of the organizational difficulties that an organization might have in trying to set up.

So, Mr. Speaker, in an effort to try to speed up any discussions that the Northwest Territories might have in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, I recently spoke with a member of the regional HTA and in our discussions we wanted to come up with a way where we might be able to speed up the workshop that we had proposed. Hopefully, Mr. Speaker, we'll be able to set this up later in the spring or early in the summer and hopefully it will be before allocations are made in area zero. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Further Return To Question 376-12(7): GNWT Input Into Fishing Negotiations
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Item 6: Oral Questions

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Thank you. Item 6, oral questions. Mr. Patterson.

Dennis Patterson Iqaluit

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. To the Minister of Public Works. Mr. Speaker, we learned during the Standing Committee on Finance review of the main estimates that many capital projects from last year were delayed in the tendering. I would like to ask the Minister about capital projects for this coming year. The capital budget was approved this past fall. I would like to ask the Minister how are we doing with tendering. What proportion of this coming year's capital projects have now been tendered? We're not at the end of March. What proportion of those projects have now been put out to tender? Thank you.

The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Minister of Public Works and Services, Mr. Morin.

Return To Question 377-12(7): Proportion Of 1995-96 Capital Projects Tendered To Date
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Don Morin Tu Nedhe

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don't have it at my fingertips. Thank you for the notice of the question. I

did send a note to get that information of how many tenders are tendered already and how many are left to tender. Since the briefing with the Standing Committee on Finance, I know we are still working with the departments on the problems that are occurring to try to get the proper funds in place so that we can tender at an earlier time of the year. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Patterson.

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Dennis Patterson Iqaluit

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate that the Minister may not have the information at his fingertips, but I think it's my assessment from reading the newspapers that a lot of major projects have not gone out to tender yet. I would like to ask the Minister, why is it that it seems that once again we're late tendering many projects. Is it the fault of the Department of Public Works? Thank you.

Supplementary To Question 377-12(7): Proportion Of 1995-96 Capital Projects Tendered To Date
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Mr. Morin.

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Don Morin Tu Nedhe

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wouldn't say it's the fault of the Department of Public Works or the fault of any department in general. What I'm saying is that we had briefed Members of the problems that are occurring in the tendering process. Even by us passing the fall budget for capital projects, if we don't do other things, it doesn't help with passing the fall budget. There's a process that takes approximately 18 months, I believe, to get a proposal from the initial stage to tendering. We have a problem with the process and we're attempting to fix it, and that's the process of getting all the information from the client departments to the department, as well as the community consultation through the departments, then go to tender. Tender is the very last portion of it. As I've shown Members, the bottleneck is just prior to the consultation phase of it, prior to where we go to proposal call for architectural and engineering drawings. And we are picking up a lot of the slack once it goes into the private sector and once it does go to tender, so the majority of the projects are coming in on time and on budget. We're lucky to be able to do that under the existing process we are working under right now, and we are attempting to fix that process. Thank you.

Further Return To Question 377-12(7): Proportion Of 1995-96 Capital Projects Tendered To Date
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Patterson.

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Dennis Patterson Iqaluit

Mr. Speaker, would one way of the eliminating these delays be to eliminate the fall capital project approval process, and instead tie the capital project approval process into the O and M session in February/March? Thank you.

Supplementary To Question 377-12(7): Proportion Of 1995-96 Capital Projects Tendered To Date
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Mr. Morin.

Further Return To Question 377-12(7): Proportion Of 1995-96 Capital Projects Tendered To Date
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Don Morin Tu Nedhe

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Absolutely not. The fall is the best time to pass your capital budget. We have a few kinks to work out with the departments and with Cabinet on some of the processes we're using right now. We have to streamline that process, and we're working with the departments to do that. Hopefully that will get accomplished. I believe I briefed Members in February or January some time on that issue. We are working to try to solve that issue. Thank you.

Further Return To Question 377-12(7): Proportion Of 1995-96 Capital Projects Tendered To Date
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Thank you. Final supplementary, Mr. Patterson.

Supplementary To Question 377-12(7): Proportion Of 1995-96 Capital Projects Tendered To Date
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Dennis Patterson Iqaluit

Mr. Speaker, I take it from the Minister's response to my first question that he will take as notice the request for a status report on the tender status of the capital projects for 1995-96 and provide that information in a timely fashion to Members of this House. Thank you.

Supplementary To Question 377-12(7): Proportion Of 1995-96 Capital Projects Tendered To Date
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Mr. Morin.

Further Return To Question 377-12(7): Proportion Of 1995-96 Capital Projects Tendered To Date
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Don Morin Tu Nedhe

Thank you. Mr. Speaker, what I said to the Member is that I'll get a report for him and I'll make sure that I'll get it to him as soon as possible. Thank you.

Further Return To Question 377-12(7): Proportion Of 1995-96 Capital Projects Tendered To Date
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Thank you. Item 6, oral questions. Item 7, written questions. Item 8, returns to written questions. Item 9, replies to opening address. Item 10, petitions. Item 11, reports of standing and special committees. Item 12, reports of committees on the review of bills. Item 13, tabling of documents. Item 14, notices of motion. Item 15, notices of motions for first reading of bills. Item 16, motions. Item 17, first reading of bills. Item 18, second reading of bills. Item 19, consideration in committee of the whole of bills and other matters: Bill 1, Appropriation Act, No. 2, 1995-96; Bill 13, An Act to Amend the Fair Practices Act; Bill 16, An Act to Amend the Retirement Plan Beneficiaries Act; Bill 19, An Act to Amend the Elections Act, No. 2; Bill 24, Community Employees' Benefits Act; Bill 27, An Act to Amend the Land Titles Act; Committee Report 2-12(7), Report on the Legislative Action Paper on the Office of Ombudsman for the Northwest Territories; Committee Report 3-12(7), Report on the Review of the Legislative Action Paper Proposing New Heritage Legislation for the Northwest Territories; Committee Report 4-12(7), Report on the Review of the 1995-96 Main Estimates; and, Committee Report 5-12(7), Report on the Review of Rewriting the Liquor Laws of the Northwest Territories: A Legislative Action Paper, with Mr. Lewis in the chair.

Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters

March 30th, 1995

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The Chair Brian Lewis

I would like to call the committee to order. What would the committee like to do? Mr. Dent.

Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters

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Charles Dent

Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake

Mr. Chairman, I would like to recommend that the committee consider Bill 1 and Committee Report 4-12(7), specifically to deal with the budget of the NWT Housing Corporation.

Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters

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The Chair Brian Lewis

Okay, we will deal with the appropriations and go into the Housing Corporation. Do people agree with that, before we have a break?

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Some Hon. Members

Agreed.

---Agreed