Minister Antoine.
Debates of July 4th, 2000
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
In response to the honourable Member's concern about the coroner's jury recommendation related to the inquest of the death of an inmate in the South Mackenzie Correctional Centre, there were quite a number of recommendations. I believe about 40 or so recommendations were made by the coroner's jury. The correction services have immediately implemented most of the recommendations, from what I have been told. Those that could not be implemented at once were to determine the cost, the feasibility, the effectiveness and timing of the compliance of the recommendations. Those recommendations that were not implemented immediately will be dealt with in time. The intention is to implement them eventually.
In regard to using the students at the Dene K'Onia facility in Hay River, these are students who are being trained in Inuvik and they are there as casuals. They are replacing casuals that are there already until the end of summer, then they return back to school. That is how long their term is going to be there. Thank you.
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Comments? Detail, corporate services, operation expense, total operation expense, $6,879,000.
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Agreed.
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Corporate services, grants and contributions, grants, $40,000.
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Agreed.
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Contributions, $3,000.
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Agreed.
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Total grants and contributions, $43,000.
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Agreed.
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Page 7-13, law enforcement. Mr. Dent.
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Charles Dent Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In the area of First Nations community policing, I am wondering if I can ask the Minister how much was spent in First Nations community policing in the last fiscal year and what is included in this budget for this year?
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Minister Antoine.
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There were two agreements, one was for $121,000 and the other one was for $260,000, for a total of $381,000 for the fiscal year 1999-2000. For this year, we are still negotiating the amount. Thank you.
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Thank you. Mr. Dent.
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Charles Dent Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I had understood that the government had not successfully concluded the negotiations with the federal government last year. Were we still covered in a federal contribution or was that $381,000 all Government of the Northwest Territories money?
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Minister Antoine.
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you. The $381,000 was all our money. The $121,000 was 54 percent our share and the 46 percent was the federal share. The $260,000 was 48 percent our share and 52 percent the federal government's share. With the $260,000, we are just finalizing an agreement with the federal government on that. It is pretty close, I am told. It is a shared funding. Thank you.
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Mr. Dent.
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Charles Dent Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the purpose of my questioning was I had been given to understand that we had not received any federal money in the last year for this program. So I thought that there may be an opportunity here to encourage the department to spend the same amount that we had been spending in our dollars and add in the federal contribution, because I think that this is a very important area. We could look for ways where it is through lapses in other budgets that are perhaps not being spent.
I would like to encourage the Minister and the department to look for ways to increase the spending in First Nations policing. I believe this is a program that has tremendous potential, particularly as we move down the road to self-government and communities will want to take on more and more responsibility for policing themselves. This can only help make sure that they are prepared to do so. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Thank you. Mr. Antoine.
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you. We will try to do that. We agree with the honourable Member. I think it is a good idea. We will try it. We will see what happens. Thank you.
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Mr. Dent.
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Main estimates, law enforcement operations, total operations expense, $18,984,000.