Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to say to the Minister that people in my community that I reside in were happy that there were some discussions going on regarding the demolition of the Chief Albert Wright School. It’s been a situation that we finally have seen some resolution to it and I certainly support the department on this item in the budget here to see that we can finally move on it.
Also, the issue of the property of where the school is situated right now has a lot of interest by community members for an agreement that was possibly negotiated some time ago with the municipality, the Hamlet of Tulita, in terms of land swapping and how they are going to use that facility. However, they are excited that we’re finally getting some attention to it and that this building would be demolished and it would be taken down. So I wanted to say that.
The other one is that I want to say to the Minister on the work going forward is, I guess I want to say in terms of the creativity in the issue of the settlement maintainer, it’s a good issue. I think that’s something that’s much needed in all the small communities. It makes a lot of sense, so I’m really happy to see it in the budget for this department. So that I wanted to say to the Minister.
I wanted to also let the Minister know that the issue on the energy conservation projects, and I was hoping that we might get some in terms of the assets that they own. There is a facility that we as a government, as a department, has an old garage that’s in Tulita. It was built, I think, the way it looks, it looks like it was built in the 1500s or 1600s, but I could be wrong, but it’s built in 1960. But it’s so old and really it looks in pretty bad shape. We have some really good people working in the communities and they’re subjected to working in this type of building here. So I wanted to see if that would get some attention sometime within this government here and see if we could have a new building in Tulita. There are other buildings that are constructed that DPW has that are brought up to standard. So this one here, I think it needs some really good attention. So I’m looking forward to seeing if the Minister could put something like that together in the plans in terms of the assets that they have in Tulita.
Mr. Chair, the petroleum products division, the Minister is well aware of the issue in Tulita. Again, I speak to...and he’s sent me some notes and I
appreciate the information from the Minister. I’m looking forward to seeing where that production for upgrading the facility for the operator is going to get some attention and in terms of the operation and the work that this operator has done on behalf of this government. I think that he’s looking forward... Actually, I’m looking forward to seeing something get done. It’s scary sometimes when you go into those old buildings and there are some things that shouldn’t even be looked at safety wise, Labour Code wise. Things like that we should really be more aware of on how we put our contractors in place to deliver fuel.
Overall I’m really quite pleased with the budget that the department has put before us. I’ll leave the rest to details.