Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Minister.
Debates of June 17th, 2016
This is page numbers 725-762 of the Hansard for the 18th Assembly, 2nd 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 program.
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Louis Sebert Thebacha
Mr. Chair, no, they do not sign a waiver. In fact the Workers Compensation Act does not allow such waivers. People simply cannot waive the conditions and protections that are afforded by the act. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Could the Minister then explain to us what he means by their kind of a leave of absence? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Haener
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Corrections Act allows for temporary absences to be provided to inmates to assist with their reintegration into communities and prepare for their release. So the temporary absence provisions under the Corrections Act are there seeing that there would be an ability to work with communities and employers in communities to employ or otherwise support an inmate through counselling, through volunteer activities and those kinds of activities outside of a correctional facility. If an inmate happens to be working while on a temporary absence, then obviously they're covered by the Workers Compensation provisions that are available to all workers in the Territories. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you very much. I'll have some other questions about that later on, but when it comes to Committee I'll have some concerns about that. The federal exchange of services I've seen a huge increase from the previous revised estimates. Could you explain this huge increase? It's almost double. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Louis Sebert Thebacha
Mr. Chair, while there may be an increase from last year, I note that it is not that different than that 2014-15 actuals of $1,302,000. I don’t have long-term what the cost has been, however. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I understand that the 2014-2015 actuals, the $1,302,000, but the Main Estimates for 2015-2016 was $755,000. So I see a real increase from 2015-16 to 2016-2017 of about 745. It's $200,000 approximately from the previous year, so can he explain why we have this huge fluctuation and huge increase? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Louis Sebert Thebacha
Mr. Chair, I understand there has been some catching up, but perhaps Ms. Schofield could assist in giving more detail. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Schofield
Thank you, Mr. Chair. In the planning and estimating of revenue for the Main Estimates for 2015-16, at times you want to be as conservative as you can be without overstating your revenue. In this fiscal year, we did a greater analysis of what has been happening historically. We have adjusted the calculations to determine what the estimated revenue would be, as well as we have seen an increase in federal repatriated offenders in our facility over the last couple of years. Annually, the per diem rates that we charge to the federal government for housing offenders changes as well. So it is a reflection of volume increase, per diem increase, as well as looking historically to what the actual revenues have been in repatriating our federal offenders. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
I thank Ms. Schofield for that answer. I appreciate the historicals, which are actually more reflective of what is going on. At this point I have no specific questions for this page. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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The Chair R.J. Simpson
Thank you, Mr. Thompson. No further questions for this page? We can move on to page 261. Active position summary, information item. I will give committee a moment. Mr. Testart.
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June 16th, 2016
Kieron Testart Kam Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The decrease in corrections positions, is that as a result of the reorganization of the North Slave correctional complex? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Louis Sebert Thebacha
Mr. Chair, yes, that is correct. The amalgamation of the two facilities is the reason for most of that increase if not -- almost all of that decrease, rather.
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