Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the situation I know is sensitive. I'm just trying to get an idea as to future costs in terms of the schooling. I understand the process of needs and requirements by the departments in terms of bringing their budgets forth to the business planning cycle. I'm hearing from Colville Lake that there is a desperate need, and it just seems like we're not doing anything to take care of that. So I'm not too sure of those requirements at that time, as we just heard last week. That's my concern. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Debates of Oct. 26th, 2005
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Committee Motion 7-15(4): To Delete $460,000 From The Department Of Education, Culture And Employment, Income Security Activity In Bill 11, Carried
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Committee Motion 7-15(4): To Delete $460,000 From The Department Of Education, Culture And Employment, Income Security Activity In Bill 11, Carried
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Floyd Roland Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, this document before us deals with the requirements the departments need, at this point, to fulfill the projects that are on their books in the fiscal year that we find ourselves in. For other facilities outside of this, I guess, at this point, we'll go to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment if he may have some details he can share with the Member on this. As we're going through this document, the departments are requesting these resources to deal with the requirements placed on them at this point in time. Thank you.
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Committee Motion 7-15(4): To Delete $460,000 From The Department Of Education, Culture And Employment, Income Security Activity In Bill 11, Carried
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Charles Dent Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just to confirm, we're talking about the $800,000, is that correct?
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Charles Dent Frame Lake
Okay, so it's not even on this page. Colville Lake is still in the capital plan, as I've assured the Member in the House previously in this session. I don't have the exact numbers before me, but the plan is still to replace. We have committed to have staff visit the community to discuss the plan.
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The Chair David Ramsay
Thank you, Mr. Dent. Committee, we're on page 27, Education, Culture and Employment, capital investment expenditures, special warrants, $800,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Committee Motion 7-15(4): To Delete $460,000 From The Department Of Education, Culture And Employment, Income Security Activity In Bill 11, Carried
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair David Ramsay
Page 28, Transportation, capital investment expenditures, not previously authorized, $2.8 million. Mr. Braden.
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Bill Braden Great Slave
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's a real pleasure to see a project, and if I have my information right, that's going to be completed ahead of time and on budget. The question I wanted to ask here is, of course, on the airport passenger terminal building project in Yellowknife. We're not changing the overall cost of the project, but because of advances in completion, we need $2.8 million to spend this current year, and not next year when it was originally booked. My question, Mr. Chair, is, how is this acceleration achieved? As I say, it's good to see, but we're still sort of five months out from the end of
the fiscal year. It seems that a lot of work was done earlier than, perhaps, projected, and I would just like to get a little detail on what happened either in the construction, or the planning, or the scheduling, that caused this variance. Thank you.
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Committee Motion 7-15(4): To Delete $460,000 From The Department Of Education, Culture And Employment, Income Security Activity In Bill 11, Carried
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Floyd Roland Inuvik Boot Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the information, as the Member has pointed out, is correct. The project is ahead of schedule and will be completed before the initial timeline that was laid out. So we're basically taking the money that would have been spent in the next fiscal year, and bringing it to this year. As to why it's ahead of schedule, I don't have that information available. Maybe we can have the Minister provide that at a later date. Thank you.
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Michael McLeod Deh Cho
Mr. Chairman, I don't have the exact detail as to why they're ahead of schedule. Our contractors advise us that a lot of the work has been completed up to now, and we expect to be able to continue to move ahead. We don't want an interruption in the work. We'd like to see the contractors continue. So we're asking that some of the money that was budgeted for next year be moved forward. I think some of that may be on our own timelines that were brought forward, and maybe they were a little bit too generous, and the contractor has shown that they've been able to stay ahead of the game. They've assured us that the passenger terminal building and the CATSA portion of it will be ready by January 1st, and the project should be completed by March. So there's no good news there that we're ahead of the game, but we also need money to continue this moving forward.
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Bill Braden Great Slave
Okay, Mr. Chair, I'll look forward to that information, and I think associated with it, will be the rollout of the department's plans for recouping this investment. As we have been told, this will be done through increased user fees, and the like. So it will be interesting to see how that whole project rolls out. No further questions, Mr. Chair.
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The Chair David Ramsay
Thank you, Mr. Braden. Back to page 28, Transportation, capital investment expenditures, total department, not previously authorized, $2.8 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair David Ramsay
Page 29, Industry, Tourism and Investment, capital investment expenditures, not previously authorized, total department, $60,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair David Ramsay
Thank you. We're now done detail. What is the wish of the committee? Mr. Hawkins.
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