Thank you. Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Picco.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I do know that, of course, future governments will be involved in the $18.6 million in new funding. My question was on the $6 million in base funding that will be coming to this government not another government. Again, Mr. Speaker, the $6 million in base funding, will that be dedicated to the Inuvik and Baffin facilities? Thank you.

Mr. Ng.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, both in respect to the $6.5 million of ongoing base transfers and plus the additional $18.6 million of additional funding over the next five years. Both of those revenue streams will be allocated to two new governments. It will be up to those two new governments to determine their budgets on where they want to appropriate those funds, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Thank you. Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Picco.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am not getting much of a level of comfort. How much of the base transfer will be received by this government in this fiscal year and will that be given to the Baffin and Inuvik hospital projects? Thank you.

Mr. Ng.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, none of the base transfer amounts will be received in this fiscal year. Thank you.

Thank you. Oral questions. Mr. Ningark.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is directed to my honourable friend, Mr. Arlooktoo, Minister of Justice. Again, in my Member's statement, I salute the Minister for recognizing the need for community justice in the communities across the Nunavut area. I have a serious question as to the location of several potential camps for adult offenders. I wish I could say that there is no crime at all in the Kitikmeot, or in the Keewatin for that matter, but the point is, every region has crime and there is a need for facilities in every region and community across the NWT. My question is, who determines where those facilities should be located in the Nunavut area? Thank you.

The Minister of Justice, Mr. Arlooktoo.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The new and potential camps that I spoke about came about as a result of interested potential contractors approaching the department and the department expressing interest. I did make a statement this winter encouraging community members that were interested in opening up these adult camp facilities. As I stated during that time, there were a number of facilities already opened. I believe there were just under 20 camps around the Northwest Territories before these new initiatives came about. The fact of the matter is, there are camps in all the regions at this point in time, including the Kitikmeot, the Keewatin, but predominately in the western Northwest Territories. In order for a new camp to open, the potential contractors must express interest and show that they are capable and suitable to operate these bush camps. We will work with them to open up these bush camps. Thank you.

Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Ningark.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Supplementary to the same honourable Minister, Mr. Arlooktoo. My supplementary, Mr. Speaker, is if the Minister, has the information at hand, how many such facilities are there in each of the three regions? Thank you.

Mr. Arlooktoo.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do not have that information at my fingertips, but I will pass it onto the Member. I think the important thing to point out at this stage is that if there are communities that are interested in participating in this program, we do encourage them to contact the department. We have a fairly limited amount of capital dollars that we can use to assist these potential operators. We are not talking about large amounts of money here. Some money has been used to fix up cabins for equipment and training and generally these are not large lucrative contracts. A typical bush camp may have anywhere from two to six offenders who are taking care of that camp and the way we pay them is on a per diem basis of $88 per day. I will give the information to the Member, but at the same time know we should work together in encouraging community members who may be interested in pursuing this line of work. Thank you.

Thank you. Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Ningark.

Mr. Arlooktoo.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to assure the Member that we already do give equal consideration to all the regions. The capital dollars, which I indicated, is a relatively small amount that the Department of Justice has, and it is for all of the Northwest Territories. The large majority of camps at this point in time are in the western NWT, and that is not the result of the department pushing this program in any particular part, but it shows more the amount of interest that communities have expressed. We are now trying to spread the work around to ensure all the other regions have an equal opportunity to be part of the program. Thank you.

Thank you. Oral questions. Mr. Henry.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of FMBS, Mr. Todd, regarding the pay equity issue. Earlier on in the session which just finished yesterday, Mr. Speaker, I had brought to the Minister's attention the unfairness in what some of our Government of the Northwest Territories employees were receiving compared to other ones in other communities. The Minister made a commitment that he would revisit that particular topic. That was on May 22nd. On May 25th, he also made the same commitment to my colleague, Mr. Erasmus. I am wondering if the Minister could tell us if he has had the opportunity to re-evaluate the position with regard to the payments made in the Northern Living Allowance to the

employees who are living in Yellowknife? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

The Minister of Finance, Mr. Todd.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have not had the opportunity to review the request put forward by my honourable colleague, but it is on my calendar to deal with this as soon as we can get to it. Thank you.