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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Erasmus.

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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Could the Minister indicate to what extent the Northern Addiction Services Board was involved in this plan and if they actually agreed to it? Thank you.

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Thank you. Mr. Roland, two questions.

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Floyd Roland

Floyd Roland Inuvik

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Northern Addiction Services Board was involved in particular with the facility that was in Dettah. That facility, the board was directly involved with, the department and with health boards at times as they worked through trying to develop what avenues we could work towards providing services for residents in the territories. There is an ongoing history that I could provide for the Member at a later time if he wants a briefing. This can go back as far as 1994, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Oral questions. Final supplementary, Mr. Erasmus.

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Roy Erasmus Yellowknife North

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The information that I received is that the board and staff are basically presented with a plan that has already been drafted by some group, staff persons, or whomever, but that they really had no input into the formulation of this plan, whether or not they actually wanted to shut down their rehabilitation centre and turn it into some other type of facility for children. Would the Minister indicate whether this is actually true or what actually occurred there? Thank you.

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Mr. Roland.

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Floyd Roland

Floyd Roland Inuvik

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the department along with health boards did work on trying to develop a plan and how we could reprofile the existing facilities that were available to us in the territories to see if we could use them and, those that we already had agreements in place with to try and reprofile programming so we could meet the needs of all residents in the territories. As I am aware of today, there was involvement through the health boards, as well as the department, and NAS or Northern Addiction Services Board, were involved to a number of different degrees through this whole process of trying to come up with a positive solution to what had come about. As I said, unfortunately, we were not able to come to an agreement on what the facility could be used for. When they went towards the area of trying to secure a Justice contract for treating inmates, that is when the department had pulled out of the discussions. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Oral questions. Mr. Morin.

Don Morin Tu Nedhe

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Minister of Justice. In the past, capital plan of this government had allocated funding for renovations to the Yellowknife Correctional Centre. Does the Minister still plan on implementing those renovations or what is his plan to solve the long-term over crowdedness of the Yellowknife Correctional Centre? Thank you.

The Speaker Samuel Gargan

The Minister of Justice, Mr. Kakfwi.

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Stephen Kakfwi

Stephen Kakfwi Sahtu

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I understand that the Minister of Finance has just taken the question about this capital project on notice. It is my intent to do the same because I think it is important to just make sure that the authority to proceed with the capital projects, renovations, and major new construction....

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Thank you. The Member for Tu Nedhe raised a point of order. Mr. Morin.

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Don Morin Tu Nedhe

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just a point of order. The Minister took the question as notice. I do not need an explanation why he is taking it as notice. Thank you.

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

If the Members will read carefully or have been listening or paying attention, there was no response regarding taking the question as notice because the question was ruled out of order with reference to it being in the committee. It does not stop the Member from asking questions regarding what the future plans of the Minister are regarding the corrections. There was no point of order. The Minister of Justice is still responding. Mr. Kakfwi, are you still responding to the question?

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Stephen Kakfwi

Stephen Kakfwi Sahtu

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will take the question as notice since it is going to be dealt with in committee of the whole. Thank you.

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

The question is taken as notice. Oral questions. Mr. Krutko.

Question 227-13(7): Consultation On Negotiated Contracts Policy
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July 25th, 1999

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David Krutko

David Krutko Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is to the Premier. It is in regard to this new initiative that has been taken by the department on negotiated contracts and basically establishing new criteria in regard to consideration of negotiated contracts. I would like to ask the Premier, has he consulted with the Gwich'in Tribal Council or the Inuvialuit in regard to the economic chapters of their land claim agreements, which clearly state that the Government of the Northwest Territories shall consult the Gwich'in Tribal Council when developing, modifying for its preferential contracting policies, procedures or approaches? Has this government made any attempt to contact or develop with the aboriginal groups, the Inuvialuit or the Gwich'in, when they changed or established this new criteria for this negotiated policy?

The Speaker Samuel Gargan

The Premier.

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Jim Antoine Nahendeh

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this government is still following the Negotiated Contract Policy. Maybe, just for clarification, you would allow me, since we extended question period indefinitely here, that a little background information just to get into focus here. In May, 1997, this Legislative Assembly passed a motion calling upon the then Premier to specifically clarify the government's position on government-wide non-competitive contracts by providing a draft policy on non-competitive contracts to the standing committees by August 15, 1997. In June, 1997, the Cabinet referred a draft negotiated contracts policy for the standing committee to review. This is where it is at.

Carrying on, in December, 1998, an intergovernmental review team was established to review the government's negotiated contracts. The review team recommended several improvements to the decision-making processes for negotiated contracts as well as public disclosure and reporting practises. These recommendations were accepted by Cabinet and FMB recently in May, 1999. In June, this last month, myself and the chair of FMB distributed a package to MLAs advising of the review team's progress and plans for further work. The same package contains copies of relevant procedures approved by the Cabinet and FMB, as well as a copy of the report prepared under the direction of the review team, Mr. Speaker. With that little bit of background, there has been a lot of work since 1997 that we have gone through upon questions of honourable Members in the House to this government of negotiated contracts. We know there is a lot of scrutiny that we are going through in this whole area. What we are trying to do is comply with the direction of this Legislative Assembly to come out with some clear guidelines on how to deal with negotiated contracts. We have not changed the policy, we are just trying to clarify some of the input that goes into reviewing negotiated contracts as they come forward as proposals. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Krutko.

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David Krutko

David Krutko Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is great to get the review, but my question is, exactly what role did the aboriginal organizations, such as the Inuvialuit and the Gwich'in, who have land claim agreements on economic sections that also clearly states that if there are any revisions or basically development or modification on preferential contacting policies or procedures, that they were supposed to be consulted. From the group that you mentioned, I do not hear the Gwich'in or Inuvialuit or any of those groups. I would like to know why were these land claims agreements were overlooked during this review.

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Mr. Antoine.

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Jim Antoine Nahendeh

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, again this is not a new negotiated contract policy. It is still the same one that we have been working on. Therefore, we have not had the opportunity to inform the different claimant groups that the honourable Member is mentioning. Actually, there is no change in the policy at all except we are just clarifying what issues must be considered in looking at these negotiated contracts. This information was forwarded to the MLA and hopefully, eventually, it will get circulated to the respective organizations and First Nations that the honourable Member is saying that we are supposed to consult with in regard to their claims. Thank you.

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The Speaker Samuel Gargan

Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Krutko.