Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm glad the Members feel that this is an important service, and that's why we've gone out to set up another office so that all members affected, whether it's a family separating, can seek service and get that right now that was a difficult thing to offer. Lawyers in one office could not work for both clients if it came to a family separation. We, as a government, recognized that, established the money to develop this space and created a second office. From the information I'm provided, we are not going to reduce the level of service. We are going to increase the level of service to the residents of the Northwest Territories who require this type of service. Again, for the cost of the actual space, an RFP went out that requested general office space and under that request the responses were received. I'll say again that all three responses that were received did not meet the criteria, but on reviewing all three files it was felt that the one company that did submit -- it missed the timeline, and I've been open about that -- fit the criteria enough that we could have some discussions with them and came to an agreement on the price. Again, the price that we worked with was that based on general office space. Thank you.
Floyd Roland on Question 238-15(3): New Legal Aid Office Lease
In the Legislative Assembly on October 18th, 2004. See this statement in context.
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