It is our practice to share the information once the reports have been compiled in terms of what hazardous material may be in the building, any outstanding issues that the facility may need to address while doing demolition. So we’d be happy to share that information. We usually do with the contractor that has the contract.
Debates of Feb. 24th, 2011
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Norman Yakeleya Sahtu
I look forward to at least the Tulita report, Mr. Chair, and hopefully later on the Fort Good Hope report. I wanted to ask the Minister, I know there was an issue with the school in Colville Lake with the washroom facilities and the running water there. I know there was material there, material being ordered to get there and I think it’s already there and waiting to use it. Right now I believe that Colville Lake’s School is still using the honey bucket system and there are other issues that prevent them from hooking up the water lines and the washroom facilities. Can the Minister comment as to what’s going to happen next?
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Michael McLeod Deh Cho
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We’d be happy to share the summary report on the demolition of the Tulita school with the
Member. We’d also be happy to supply information on our findings with the Good Hope school. As to the Colville Lake school, there is a contract that will be going out in this coming fiscal year to install a water tank in the school that would allow us to have running water, and that is being discussed with a local contractor to provide that. Thank you.
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The Chair Glen Abernethy
Thank you, Minister McLeod. We’re on page 7-17, Public Works and Services, which is an activity summary for asset management, operations expenditure summary, $81.881 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Glen Abernethy
Next page, 7-18, Public Works and Services. It’s an information item, asset management, active positions.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Wendy Bisaro Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I wanted to ask a couple of questions here. First of all, with regard to the new data centre that’s just been completed, could I get an update on where things are at in terms of occupation of the building? I believe the building itself is finished, but have we moved totally into there or is there still some moving to come? Thank you.
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Paul Guy
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Member is correct; the building was just recently completed. It went through a fairly long commissioning process because there were a large number of specialized heating and mechanical systems in that building. The building was just finally turned over to us in early February by the contractor, so we achieved substantial completion. We’re now in the process of starting to move server equipment in, put cabling in and migrating the data centre functions over there. We expect to have that part of the project complete late May or early June and then the facility will be fully operational at that time. Thank you.
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Wendy Bisaro Frame Lake
Thanks very much for that update. Good to hear. I wanted to also go back to the issue of bandwidth and the demands that are being placed on our system, particularly because of education and health. I’d like to ask the Minister or the DM what the plans are for the department to accommodate our ever-expanding needs for IT. Thank you.
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Gault
Thank you, Mr. Chair. There’s been a number of initiatives that we’ve been working on, particularly the most recent is with regards to addressing the education requirement for greater
access to Internet bandwidth. We have redirected Internet traffic off of our main government network and this has provided additional bandwidth access for the schools and at the same time has relieved the congestion on the DCN for the government, other departments, and in particular for the growing health use of the network particularly for digital X-rays. With the new contract that we are looking at or the new network, we’ll be improving performance right across the network, new technology, particularly in the satellite communities where in order to have education curriculum needs for distance learning, for health tele-speech initiatives, this will provide greater bandwidth for us. We are looking at an overall reduced cost per unit for our bandwidth. We know we have to manage it as a government overall growth, but we anticipate these initiatives will improve both the performance and the quality for the government. Thank you.
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Wendy Bisaro Frame Lake
Thanks very much for that update. Good to hear. I’m just wondering, in terms of distance education, my understanding is now that it’s well nigh impossible in some places, certainly the smaller communities, for the students to try to do distance, it takes literally up to hours to download the materials that they need for distance learning. With this new system, is that going to be improved? I suspect it probably won’t go away, but will it make it that much easier for particularly high school students to do distance education? Thank you.
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Gault
There are definitely certainly aspects of the education curriculum that will be improved. There are certain types of distance learning or video conferencing that simply cannot be accommodated due to the latency in the satellite technology. This is why we’re working closely with the schools to understand specifically what kind of applications and education components they are looking for so that together we can determine what we can do from a technology standpoint. We do anticipate there are many of those, but we do know that there are some that we cannot accommodate because of the technical limitation of satellite. Thank you.
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The Chair Glen Abernethy
Thank you, Ms. Gault. We’re on page 7-21, Public Works and Services, activity summary, Technology Service Centre, operations expenditure summary, $1.361 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Glen Abernethy
Moving along to pages 7-22 and 7-23, Public Works and Services, activity summary, petroleum products, operations expenditure summary, $2.134 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Glen Abernethy
Moving along to page 7-24, which is Public Works and Services. It’s
an information item, lease commitments - infrastructure.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Glen Abernethy
Moving along to 7-26, Public Works and Services, information item, Technology Service Centre (chargeback).
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Glen Abernethy
Next page is 7-27, Public Works and Services. It’s an information item. Mr. Krutko.