Thank you, Madam Chair. Could the Minister give us some type of time frame when we can expect the true costs of what these services will now represent? Are they in negotiations with the other services, noting that I believe you said there were five ferry services covered under contract services? That should, if I understand, leave only three. If he said two were under our employee workforce, are they going to bring them back into the public service fold? Thank you, Madam Chair.
Debates of Feb. 16th, 2006
This is page numbers 1087 - 1118 of the Hansard for the 15th Assembly, 4th 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 going.
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Michael McLeod Deh Cho
Madam Chair, right now we have only two ferry services operating through our own forces. We don't plan to have any of the other ferries come under our own forces in the next while. There has been some discussion with the community of Tsiigehtchic where they indicated that they wanted to turn back the services. They have a partner, the Inuvik Dene. There is some discussion going on between the union and the employees and I think the Inuvik band. However, we haven't looked at taking over that service. We are still hoping that they will be able to work it out. Our cost analysis is based on the ferries we are currently operating. We have an RFP, as indicated, to do an assessment. The tender for that is closed tomorrow. We expect to have a report in April of the assessment, including management of our marine services. That's where we are at with this, Madam Chair.
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Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
Madam Chair, just one last question and I will put it in this light. Recognizing that we don't have the company that is required to make a profit -- I am speaking obviously about the two ferry services that were turned back -- is it intended that, at the end of the day, this will be cost neutral?
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Michael McLeod Deh Cho
Madam Chair, there is no indication that it is going to be cost neutral. In some cases, we have a policy that requires us to have a certain number of employees on staff. We have a policy that requires us to enhance certification. So that changes our requirements compared to a private contractor. So I would expect that it would cost more for us to operate it.
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Kevin A. Menicoche Nahendeh
Thank you, Madam Chair. Ferries are a passionate subject of mine.
---Laughter
I just wanted to make a quick comment on the operation of the ferries and transportation, in general. I wanted to ask a question on transportation and our alcohol and drug policy with regard to workers, Madam Chair. I would like to get a quick comment from the Minister on that.
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Michael McLeod Deh Cho
Madam Chair, I don't know if we have a specific policy for our ferry operations. We have a Government of the Northwest Territories policy. I will refer the question to the deputy minister, Madam Chair.
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Neudorf
Thank you, Madam Chair. All GNWT employees follow the code of conduct and our employees are no different.
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The Chair Jane Groenewegen
Thank you, Mr. Neudorf. Activity summary, ferries, operations expenditure summary, $5.603 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Jane Groenewegen
Agreed. Thank you. Moving right along, 10-33, activity summary, information item, ferries, active positions.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Jane Groenewegen
Thank you. Page 10-35, activity summary, community marine infrastructure, operations expenditure summary, $129,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Jane Groenewegen
Page 10-37, activity summary, community marine infrastructure, grants and contributions, contributions, $50,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Jane Groenewegen
Thank you. Page 10-39, activity summary, community local access roads, operations expenditure summary, $323,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Robert Villeneuve Tu Nedhe
Madam Chair, you kind of went a little bit too fast for me. I just have a quick question about the community marine infrastructure about the contract
services. In 2004-05, it went from 2000 to 48,000 in the main estimates up to 2005-06. I just want to ask the Minister some details on that.