Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will have to read Hansard to get most of that. The Premier is stating, as he went through his answer. Do the Ministers follow that in all the decisions they make in all of their roles? They all follow that? The way they look at whether it be capital or O and M in communities or whatever. That is the guidelines that Cabinet has as a whole?
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Don Morin Tu Nedhe
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. These are the guiding principles that we do use in the development of the business plans and the development of the budgets of this government. Thank you.
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Floyd Roland Inuvik
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My question to the Premier would be, a lot of times as we did in this Assembly, the 13th Assembly, when we stepped in there were previous agreements with other governments by the previous Assembly and we have stood by them. As we have heard, the cost of a lot of programs and services, contracts, are outstanding and we have continued with them. Is that the continued process that this, the 13th Assembly, uses when it comes to agreements with other governments and companies and contractors throughout the territories? Thank you.
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Don Morin Tu Nedhe
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Normally, when the government enters into a contract for a certain length of time, we are tied by contractual law. That contract is there. We have to uphold it. As far as agreements and contracts which other governments, it would be the same. Contractual law would protect either government in an agreement.
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Floyd Roland Inuvik
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Taking from the answer the Premier stated that agreements with previous governments that this government has signed on, for example, with the federal government and transfers and so on, it does not matter if they were signed in previous years before the life of this Assembly, they are considered to be existing and continuing? Thank you.
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Don Morin Tu Nedhe
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As far as I know, yes.
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Floyd Roland Inuvik
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The reason I ask that is in 1988, the Government of the Northwest Territories, along with the federal government, signed an agreement for two facilities. One the Inuvik hospital and the other the Iqaluit
hospital. Judging from your response, I could be satisfied that this government will honour that agreement? Thank you.
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Don Morin Tu Nedhe
Guaranteed, Mr. Chairman. This government would honour that agreement unless the federal government and territorial government came to another agreement after that agreement, and they mutually agreed on something else, which I do not know if they did or did not. But we would honour any agreement that we signed unless the other party agreed with us to change or we agreed with them to change it.
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Floyd Roland Inuvik
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. How would we as Members of this Assembly become aware of any possible changes that would come about with any other governments? Thank you.
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Don Morin Tu Nedhe
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would check it out, and I will commit to the Member that I will make you aware if there is any changes from the original agreement or whether or not this government. The bottom line, is there going to be a hospital in Inuvik? That is what I am going to find out. If we are legally bound or not. If it is an agreement, a contractual agreement, then we are legally bound. But I do not know that.
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Floyd Roland Inuvik
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My questions further to that would be understanding there are possible changes, but to find out if there is going to be changes. If there has not been any change, but if there is, within the life of this Assembly, any possible changes to that agreement, how will we as Members of this Assembly become aware of those? Thank you.
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Don Morin Tu Nedhe
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It would be the honourable thing for government to do. If you have an agreement with Health Canada and then through that transfer agreement you have signed and it is a public document you have signed as a government the building of two hospitals, for example, Iqaluit and Inuvik. If you have changed that agreement you have a moral responsibility as a government to let those people in those communities know because those people are expecting hospitals. They knew this was a public agreement, that is what they would be expecting. You have a moral responsibility to those communities as well to talk to them if you are changing that agreement.
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Floyd Roland Inuvik
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If there are any changes or if there are to be any changes, will the communities and the Members affected be notified before any changes happen or would it be after the fact? Thank you.