Thank you for the clarification, Mr. Minister. Mr. Braden.
Debates of Feb. 8th, 2006
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Committee Motion 18-15(4) To Defer Consideration Of The Departmental Summary For The NWT Housing Corporation, Carried
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Bill Braden Great Slave
Mr. Chairman, could the Premier, then, provide committee at his earliest opportunity with a briefing on these initiatives? A number of them sound good. So did a number of things that MACA has promised in the past, and I'm going to be looking at where these new initiatives now under the Premier's authority are going to address this situation. So my request, then, would be to seek a commitment to provide information on these new initiatives regarding unauthorized land use. I believe, as the Minister said...Was it Yellowknife watershed regional assessment, Mr. Chairman?
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Committee Motion 18-15(4) To Defer Consideration Of The Departmental Summary For The NWT Housing Corporation, Carried
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Joe Handley Weledeh
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, we can provide, if the Member wishes in writing, a summary of where we've been and the various initiatives that are underway. Just for clarification for the Member, what I'd said is over the longer term MACA intends to do a review of the Area Development Act and its regulations, and including the Yellowknife watershed development
area regulations. The intention here would be to work toward getting a land use plan for the Yellowknife watershed development area, as well as for the greater Ingraham Trail area where there's the majority of these people who are defined as squatters. In doing that, MACA would, of course, look to participation from the city, from Akaitcho, from all the people who have an interest in this, including the residents along the Ingraham Trail and other areas under consideration. So, Mr. Chairman, we'll provide that in writing to the Members.
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Committee Motion 18-15(4) To Defer Consideration Of The Departmental Summary For The NWT Housing Corporation, Carried
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Bill Braden Great Slave
Mr. Chairman, I thank the Minister and the Premier for that information. I do have a number of other questions, but I think they'd be outside of the business at hand, which is the budget. I would return to that, if I may.
A question perhaps particular to the city of Yellowknife, but I think one which has territorial implications, is the bringing into play of 911 emergency telephone service. I may be wrong, Mr. Chairman, but was this something that was under MACA's jurisdiction in the area of emergency services and this kind of thing? To what extent is this program proceeding, Mr. Chairman?
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Michael McLeod Deh Cho
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This issue was looked at two years ago. We looked at the possibility of what it would take to bring in this 911 service, and our analysis showed that it would be very expensive to bring this to the city of Yellowknife. So we did a couple of things. First of all, we have changed all the phone numbers in the communities for emergency services so they are consistent. The RCMP in every community is 1111 and the fire departments are all 2222. What we are also doing is having some discussion, some communication, with companies to look at the possibility of making our communications within our emergency people, our firefighters, our ambulances, consistent.
It's a concern that's been raised by the Government of Canada as a result of what's happened in the United States over the hurricanes. We have had some discussion with Public Works on this issue. We are looking at what other jurisdictions are doing, namely Yukon. The Yukon has embarked on incorporating a new communications system that will allow all agencies to be able to talk to each other in the case of an evacuation or an emergency, they are required to do so.
So we are doing that much, but we are not going to be moving forward on the 911 issue as it's too costly.
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Committee Motion 18-15(4) To Defer Consideration Of The Departmental Summary For The NWT Housing Corporation, Carried
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Bill Braden Great Slave
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You know, I think that about does it for me, Mr. Chairman.
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The Chair David Ramsay
Thank you, Mr. Braden. Does committee agree that there are no further general comments?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair David Ramsay
If I could draw committee's attention to page 4-7, operations expenditure summary. We are going to defer this department summary until the activity summary and info items are considered. That means, committee, that we will start on page 4-13, activity summary, directorate, operations expenditure summary, $4.529 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair David Ramsay
Page 4-14, activity summary, directorate, program delivery details, $4.529 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair David Ramsay
Thank you, committee. Page 4-15, activity summary, directorate, grants and contributions, grants, $225,000, contributions, $390,000, total, $615,000.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair David Ramsay
Page 4-17, activity summary, this is an information item, directorate, active positions. Any questions?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair David Ramsay
Page 4-19, activity summary, community operations, operations expenditure summary, $24.570 million. Agreed?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair David Ramsay
Thank you. Page 4-21, activity summary, community operations, grants and contributions, grants, $350,000, contributions, $21.517 million, for a total of $21.867 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair David Ramsay
Thank you, committee. Page 4-23, activity summary, information item, community operations, active positions. Any questions? Agreed?