Question 34-16(6): Plebiscite On Devolution Agreement-In-Principle  It’s difficult to come up with a response or an answer that would be clear on this, because the fact is, as we’ve signed the devolution agreement to begin the process of negotiations towards a final agreement, I guess looking at the future as towards a final agreement is that som

Question 34-16(6): Plebiscite On Devolution Agreement-In-Principle  Again, the process I can see is we usually in plebiscites are seeking direction going forward on something and we have signed the agreement-in-principle. We are beginning the work of preparing for negotiations, where the advertisements, as the Member has spoken to, are to get inf

Question 34-16(6): Plebiscite On Devolution Agreement-In-Principle  The processes we have available to us both as the Members of the Assembly and, of course, from the Executive side and looking at the devolution process, one, we count on feedback from Members of the Legislative Assembly, when they go back home to their constituencies, to provide

Question 38-16(6): Bill C-530, An Act To Amend The Northwest Territories Act  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The process underway, as highlighted a couple of times by the Minister of Finance for the Government of the Northwest Territories, Mr. Miltenberger, is we’ve been working with Finance Canada for some time and, as I’ve stated in a response to the letter I s

Question 38-16(6): Bill C-530, An Act To Amend The Northwest Territories Act  It’s hard to respond to that particular lead in to the question. As I said, we’ve had a couple of meetings over the life of this Assembly and Mr. Bevington’s representation in Ottawa on behalf of the people of the Northwest Territories. They’ve been sort of general in areas. In

Question 38-16(6): Bill C-530, An Act To Amend The Northwest Territories Act  Our Finance department, Minister Miltenberger has been in contact with Minister Flaherty around this work. We were informed that we should see a report as early as this spring, hopefully April, to move forward on this initiative.

Question 27-16(6): Auditor General Report On The Deh Cho Bridge Project  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The indemnification that occurred is a normal part of business and part of that is the requirement to notify Members 14 days in advance, I think is the crux of the matter here, but that is a normal part of the process. There wasn’t an extra decision to not

Question 27-16(6): Auditor General Report On The Deh Cho Bridge Project  Thank you. Again, there is no requirement through indemnities for providing Members that. The Members are getting hooked up on... I believe there’s a requirement over the $500,000 figure, 14 days’ notice that’s honoured. In the requirement for indemnities, that process has been f

Question 27-16(6): Auditor General Report On The Deh Cho Bridge Project  Thank you. As I believe I said, but I will confirm, that in fact when we responded to the standing committee it was a request to Executive to do an overview of this process on the Deh Cho Bridge Project and that was provided to committee and we’ll send it again. In there it refer

Question 27-16(6): Auditor General Report On The Deh Cho Bridge Project  Again, in our many communications -- and we have quite a number of letters that have gone back to committee -- this has been raised. This has been committed to look at through the Financial Administration Act. I think that question is mute. We have in fact been looking towards de

Question 28-16(6): Negotiated Contracts In The Sahtu  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Negotiated Contracts Policy is one that we do use throughout the Northwest Territories, as the Member highlighted. We have a number of other tools that we use, as well, and it was referenced in this House about the memorandums of understanding with a n

Question 28-16(6): Negotiated Contracts In The Sahtu  I guess the overall target of the Government of the Northwest Territories, as raised in this House a number of times, is to try to build capacity in the industry in the Northwest Territories amongst our businesspeople, whether Aboriginal or non-Aboriginal, birthright corporations

Question 28-16(6): Negotiated Contracts In The Sahtu  The issue of negotiated contracts is one that does come up right across the Northwest Territories. The challenge we have is when there are competing interests and when there is capacity to be able to bid the work. My understanding is there’s some work coming up, there’s opportuni

Question 28-16(6): Negotiated Contracts In The Sahtu  The departments that request a negotiated contract and those contracts that are agreed to, there is a reporting process by the departments back to Cabinet. So there is a report that’s required.

Tabled Document 2-16(6): Creating Our Future Together: In Search Of A Common Vision For The NWT, Results Report And Appendix  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following document entitled Creating Our Future Together: In Search of a Common Vision for the Northwest Territories, Results Report and Appendix. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.