Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, there are actually two last issues. I am trying to roll them into one issue, Madam Chair.
The contract for the financial consultant to complete a cost analysis of the measures needed to mitigate the health and social impacts of the Mackenzie gas project, again, I like one of the comments taken from the Premier in terms of saying that, if the pipeline is a no go, then this will no longer be needed. I just wanted to ask the Minister in that type of a comment that the Premier has given. I will have some other questions some other day on this.
The last issue that I want to talk about, Madam Chair, is the allocation of funding criteria for these emergencies, and transition shelters in the North here. I see the Turning Point Shelter is $35,000, and the SideDoor Youth Centre is $100,000. As Mr. Villeneuve alluded to, the other communities, we have to decide how we are going to use the $150,000. I feel that this is very unfair. I am not too sure how the funding is allocated, or what type of criteria is needed. The SideDoor Youth Centre is maybe doing some good work, but it is $100,000 and you are giving the Turning Point Shelter in Inuvik, the whole community, $35,000, and then you have given the rest of the other communities $150,000 which we have to establish an allocation to draw on. It just doesn't seem fair. That is my bone of contention in terms of how this money is being distributed amongst the people of the Northwest Territories.
We have a lot of homeless people on the weekends. We have a hard time getting a place for them, so I don't understand how the SideDoor could get $100,000, and Inuvik gets $35,000. It just doesn't make sense. The rest of the communities have to fight over $150,000. I don't understand the logic behind the funding criteria. I want to leave it at that. Those are my comments, Madam Chair.