Mr. Chairman, I am going to wait for the next page before I ask my question.
Debates of March 5th, 2002
This is page numbers 341 - 388 of the Hansard for the 14th Assembly, 5th Session. The original version can be accessed on the Legislative Assembly's website or by contacting the Legislative Assembly Library. The word of the day was chairman.
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The Chair David Krutko
Thank you. Directorate, grants and contributions, grants, total grants, $2,220,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair David Krutko
Community financial services, operations expense, total operations expense $4,057,000. Mr. Roland.
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Floyd Roland Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In the area of community financial services division, can the Minister or his staff inform us, the section here that works on actual community finances, they go into communities and do audits of their books. Is that the function here?
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Floyd Roland Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So for example, when a community or town or municipality goes in to making a by-law, for example, or going for a debenture, that would come forward under this section and the department would be aware of what a community would be doing, in a sense? When you are going out for debenture, you are going for a loan and your tax base is going to repay that, or your block funding from the government. Is that a correct description?
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Murray
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This particular section reviews certain kinds of financial by-laws where in certain cases, they might want to go and enter into a debenture without ratepayer approval and those kinds of things. These are accounting types of people that would both work with the community in terms of solving their financial troubles, as well as reviewing things that might come forward.
This division has actually been set up in the last two years as a separate section so that we can increase the emphasis on working with communities on their financial situations.
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The Chair David Krutko
Community financial services, operations expense, total operations expense, $4,057,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair David Krutko
Community financial services, grants and contributions, contributions, total contributions, Mr. Delorey.
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Paul Delorey Hay River North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wanted to ask a question in this area. Some time ago, I had asked the department to look at volunteer firefighters in the Territories. I am not sure if this is the right place to ask the question.
I was asking for the department to look at putting in programs in place for recognition of volunteer firefighters. I was wondering if the department could give me an update as to where they are on this and what has been done? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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The Chair David Krutko
If the Minister does not mind answering the question now, unless he can point us to where this question will be dealt with? Mr. Minister.
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Vince Steen Nunakput
Mr. Chairman, we could deal with the question now. However, it probably fits better under emergency services, but I will ask Mr. Murray to respond as to where we are with the proposal from Hay River.
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Murray
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We are putting a program together for the fall of this year that will provide 5-, 10- and 15-year awards for volunteer firefighters, to recognize the service they are providing to their communities. It is to be timed with the annual fire prevention week, which I believe is in the month of October. So that is the time frame. It is separate from the volunteer awards program that is currently being done because we wanted to raise its profile.
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Paul Delorey Hay River North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I take that to mean that it will be coming into play this fall. At the same time, I had asked if the department would also, as part of the same program for volunteer firefighters, approach the Minister of Finance to see if they could match the federal contribution that is made to volunteer firefighters, and that is to forgive the first $1,000 of income they have. It is tax-free. I had requested that this government communicate with the Department of Finance and match that funding the federal government does for volunteer firefighters.
I was wondering if the department has in fact communicated or had any action from the Department of Finance to go along with this program?
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Murray
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Not yet, but I think we will still have to look at this from a tax point of view as well. To match it, it has to be done as some kind of tax forgiveness, as I understand that is how the federal program that you are referring to works. They write off the first $1,000, or am I confusing that with something else?