The Member for Iqaluit is seeking unanimous consent to return to item 6, oral questions. Do we have any nays? You have more nays this time. You do not have unanimous consent. 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 motion 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 8, Committee Report 2-13(4), 3-13(4), Tabled Document 20-13(4) with Mr. Steen in the chair.
Debates of Feb. 5th, 1997
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Return To Question 1-13(4): Policy On Fees Paid For Jury Duty
Item 8: Returns To Written Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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The Chair Vince Steen
I call the committee to order. We are on consideration of committee of the whole, Bill 8, Appropriation Act, 1997/98.
Committee Report 02-13(4), Standing Committee on Government Operations, Report on the 1997/98 Main Estimates. Committee Report 03-13(4), Standing Committee on Infrastructure, Report on the 1997/98 Main Estimates. Tabled Document 20-13(4), Report of the Joint Working Group on the Business Incentive Policy. How would the committee wish to proceed? Mr. Barnabas.
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Levi Barnabas High Arctic
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Committee wishes to proceed with Bill 8, Appropriation Act, 1997/98, Committee Report 2-13(4), and Committee Report 3-13(4). Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Vince Steen
Agreed. We will proceed with Bill 8, Appropriation Act, 1997/98 after the break.
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The Chair John Ningark
Order. We are on Bill 8, Appropriate Act, 1997-98, Financial Management Board Secretariat. We left off on general comments last night. Are there any further general comments? Before I proceed with any further general comments, I would like to ask the Minister, Mr. Todd, if he would like to bring in witnesses.
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John Todd Keewatin Central
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Indeed, I would.
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The Chair John Ningark
Committee agreed?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Agreed. You may bring in witnesses.
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The Chair John Ningark
I would like to ask Mr. Todd, chairman of the Financial Management Board, if he would introduce his witness.
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John Todd Keewatin Central
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, on my immediate right is Mr. Lew Voytilla, deputy minister of the FMBS.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you, Mr. Todd. We are on general comments on the departmental estimates by Members. Are there any further general comments? If there are no further general comments, can we proceed to the tail of the estimates?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair John Ningark
Agreed. We are on the Directorate, page 2-30. Operations and maintenance, total operation and maintenance $21,146,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair John Ningark
Mr. Picco.
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Edward Picco Iqaluit
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, over the last couple of days in the House we have been asking questions concerning the situation regarding the staff housing initiatives. I was just wondering if the Minister would have available, now that he has his departmental officials with him, exactly how many houses have actually been sold to date, and the revenue generated from same?
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you, Mr. Picco. Mr. Todd.
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John Todd Keewatin Central
It gives me great pleasure to answer Mr. Picco's well anticipated question on staff housing. Mr. Chairman, since contracting with the real estate agents on December 11, FMBS has accepted offers to purchase 218 staff houses. These include multiplex units. The total appraised value of these staff housing is about $6,300,000. The accepted offers were roughly $5,500,000 or approximately 86.1 percent of the appraised value. In addition, Mr. Chairman, we are also in the process of finalizing offers to purchase on another 41 units with an appraised value of $3 million plus, and expect that the offers will be accepted somewhere in the value between $2.3, $2.5 million. I think that we have already accepted a total offer of another 159 staff housing, with an appraised value of $9.4 million. The offers accepted on these units are valued at somewhere around $7.8 or 82.8 percent of appraised value. The average accepted offer per staff housing unit, average accepted offer per staff housing is $49 thousand. We are very enthusiastic, and there is also an additional 69 staff housing units which are sale initiatives under the NWT Housing Corporation and the Public Works before are in the process of closing. We are closing on those as well.
Mr. Chairman, I think it would be fair to say, despite some of the discussions that were under way earlier in 96, the sale of staff of housing has been met with a renewed vigour on the part of individuals, and certainly on the part of both aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities and regional companies. Thank you.
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The Chair John Ningark
Thank you, Mr. Todd. Directorate. Mr. Picco.
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Edward Picco Iqaluit
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, following up on the other information given by Mr. Todd, of the 118 houses to date, how many of those houses have actually gone to employees?