Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Thanks, Mr. Chair. I wanted to ask a question about the sheriff’s vehicle. What kind of a vehicle is it that is required? This says a suburban or similar full-size to transport court party. I guess, how big is the court party? How big does this vehicle need to be? Are we lookin

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Mr. Chair, that seems like a heck of a lot of money for a vehicle. I guess the $65,000, is that sort of a standard price for a vehicle this size, or is this a speciality vehicle, apart from the size of it that will carry eight people? Is it speciality in that it has extra securit

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  I think I may have forgotten my question. Oh, we have two vehicles, as I understand it, in Yellowknife, two sheriff ’s vehicles in Yellowknife. So I understand that this one that is being replaced is the one that is used to transport the court party. Does the other vehicle ne

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  So now I’m confused. I think the background information we got said that there are three vehicles: one in Hay River, two in Yellowknife. I hope you don’t send the vehicle that we are replacing to Hay River, because I understand that it’s beyond repair. But then Hay River ca

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Thanks to the Minister. I appreciate that, that we need two vehicles. But it would seem to me that we’re not sending two vehicles to Behchoko every day, so can the second vehicle that is here not be a bit more of a light-duty vehicle? Thank you.

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chair. There is one item under this particular section. It’s to retrofit some office space. It seems like a huge amount of money to me to retrofit what seems to be a small office. How big is this office and what kind of renovations are being done that are going t

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Thanks, Mr. Chair. Thanks for the explanation. I understand, from a security perspective, that we need to make sure that our staff are secure no matter where they’re working, but could I get a sense of the scope of this renovation, because $360,000, I could buy a house fo

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don’t need any more information. By the time I get the information, we’ll be done with the budget. That’s all I have, Mr. Chair. Thanks.

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chair. There is just one section, the infrastructure contributions to communities here in this department and I have to state, I think I stated in my opening remarks to the budget, as well, and I have stated here in this department, that communities have been funde

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Thanks, Mr. Chair. I guess I could have held this question, but if the review has been completed, I have to then ask, when are we going to see an increase in this funding? There’s no projection that I’m aware of to increase infrastructure funding anytime soon. To the Minister:

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  To the Minister: I can appreciate that we’re in a tight fiscal situation; however, $28 million in a 1.6 or 1.7 billion dollar budget is a very small percentage. I know communities are not going to get a doubling of the infrastructure dollars that are shown in this budget, but I t

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to make a general comment and reiterate the comments I made in my opening remarks to the budget itself. In general, we don’t have enough public housing units in the NWT in any of our communities. Particularly here in Yellowknife, we have a huge wait-l

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Thanks, Mr. Chair, and thanks to the Minister and Mr. Anderson for the explanation. This identifies it as one unit. Generally, when I see one unit referenced in the Housing Corporation information I think of like a two-bedroom apartment or a house or something. In this building,

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Good to hear that. I know that building definitely needs it. That helps me understand the expense. The other question I have is the next item in the list and it’s public housing, or PH, public housing, housing replacement reserve. I don’t remember seeing that in other descripti

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Thanks, Mr. Chair, and thanks to Mr. Anderson and to the Minister and staff. I thin k that’s great. As long as government allows us to do reserves like that, I think it’s a far better way than doing a lump sum multimillion dollar payout at one time. That’s all I have.