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That is the bulk of the contract costs.
I don’t really appreciate it when I see very expensive.
I too speak in Inuktitut and also, my Inuktitut comments, I use my Inuktitut comments using Inuit culture but I don’t see it in the Hansard, what I have actually said, in the Hansard, word for word.
I have only seen the interpreters translation into Inuktitut and then it’s translated into Inuktitut and I don’t really appreciate that but my colleagues who speak in English, their words or comments are recorded in what they say.
So, when are we going to start using the Inuktitut floor being used in the Hansard, not using the interpreters interpretation?
We’re aware of the concern that the member brings up and we have heard it before from other members.
I assure you that the staff there our contract staff are doing the best that they can to keep up with the members and the words they have before them.
I can only tell you that there is difficulty with the number of dialects that we have to deal with and at the pace that we run through business here in the house and that the staff are trying their best.
We have talked to the staff about this issue.
They are aware of it and we’re certainly hoping that things will improve, as they have.
It certainly is not perfect yet, but we’re working towards improving the situation for members.
Mr. Arvaluk: I didn’t know that writing the original wording of a speaker would be harder to do than to actually translate it and re-type it.
I’m not quite sure what it’s got to do with what the speaker is talking about.
Because it would be, like in English.
You would be transcribing from the tapes, as you hear them.
The second question I have, Mr. Chairman, is blue copies, blue Hansard.
Some of our constituents demand that they like to hear what we said yesterday.
These blue prints are extremely difficult to fax because it’s dark paper; can make a consideration to using lighter paper, beige or white for blue Hansard.
I know it’s maybe traditional but with the remote communities such as ours that’s very difficult to get to them quickly so that they could give us a call back and to verify what if we represented their concerns and that very next day.
So, I would like to suggest is if the speaker can make a consideration to switch from blue to white.
Mr. Chairman, this is the first time we’ve heard of this concern.
It sounds like a reasonable request.
I don’t see any problem with changing the paper to white which is the traditional way of doing the blues that we call them.
Like I say, it’s a reasonable request and I don’t see why we cannot accommodate the member in his request.
Mr. Havioyak (interpretation): Thank you, Mr. Chairman. (interpretation ends) I mean in Inuktitut what is the average plans in the near future that there be transferring the into Inuktitut soon because I know, correct me if I’m wrong on this, so I know that they’re not translated yet in Inuinnaqtun.
Is there any plans, I should also say too, that I’m aware, we are short of interpreters, translators, in Inuinnaqtun and they’re big, big documents that would take a long time to do but I’m just wondering if the speaker had considered or make some plans to start doing that in the near future.
Mr. Chairman, again we’re aware and share the same concern with what the member stated.
I would suggest this point that we could bring this issue to the MSB for consideration.
It is a fairly significant budget item but in many cases that shouldn’t be a factor when determining which language the workings of the house are.
So, I would suggest that we can bring it to the MSB for consideration and look at the overall budget commitment to for this increase.
Branch summary. 9-5.
Total Operations and Maintenance. $6 million, 145 thousand.
Chairperson (interpretation): Page 1-6.
Total Operations and Maintenance. $1 million, 652 thousand.
Page 1-7.
It’s almost three times higher than the previous years.
Is it because the speaker has to travel quite a bit? It is because we will be travelling this coming summers.
Is that why there is a large increase?
I’d love to answer that question but the clerk here is dying to address us all.
I’ll allow Mr. Clerk to address your question.
Chairperson (interpretation): Mr. Quirke.
If the Members will go back to page 1-5, you will notice that the travel budget for the Office of the Clerk has decreased by about $120 thousand.
Quite a bit of that money was moved into the Office of the Speaker.
The money for the Speaker is the conference travel, the money for travel for other Members to participate in Commonwealth Parliament Association meetings.
All that money has been moved from my budget into the Speaker’s budget.
So, that is why the increase, it is just a transfer from one activity to another, but it is travel for conferences and Mr. Speaker will take Members with him.
Page 1-7, Office of the Speaker, Total Operation and Maintenance, $335 thousand, do you agree?
Chairperson (interpretation): Page 1-8, Office of the Legislative Assembly, Branch Summary, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Total Operation and Maintenance, $1 million, 200 thousand.
Mr. Nutarak (interpretation): At the top, compensation and benefits, as Mr. Speaker has said that there will be general election held and that we will utilize this $1.2 million dollars for the general election.
During his opening comments, he stated that compensation and benefits and there is an increase by $200 thousand dollars for the general election.
How many casuals or returning officers will you be hiring from this?
Mr. Quirke has the details on the monies being forwarded for the elections.
In response to the Member’s question about the $200 thousand dollar increase.
That is the staff pre-election officers and will work in Rankin Inlet.
It also includes the funding for the Chief Electoral Officer.
The question on, in terms of the number of returning officers, etcetera, etcetera, those people that the Chief Electoral Officer will hire and how many she will hire for the one, two communities, but whatever the case is, the cost of those people are actually in the fees and payments of $300 thousand dollars.
That is where those people will be paid out of and I do not know how many she is going to hire, but she will obviously hire the amount that she needs to do the job and returning officers to deputy returning officers to poll clerks to people who will knock on your door to get you on the voters’ list.
So, that is where that.
Page 1-8, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Total Operations and Maintenance, $1 million, 200 thousand, agreed?
Chairperson (interpretation): Office of the Legislative Assembly, Branch Summary, page 1-9, Offices of Independent Commissioners, Total Operations and Maintenance, $657 thousand, agreed?
Chairperson (interpretation): Go back to page 1-4, Office of the Legislative Assembly, Department Summary, Details of Expenditures, Total Operations and Maintenance, $12 million, 989 thousand, agreed?
Do you agree that we completed the Office of the Legislative Assembly Main Estimates?
Thank you, Mr. Speaker and your officials.
Do you have any final comments?
I just want to thank the members for their support and their staff and that’s it.
Order please. Order.
We’ll go through Bill 30.
If we can get our law clerk here.
Welcome back Sue.
You probably have Bill 30 in front of you.
Main estimates, 2003/2004, do you have it in front of you.
Appropriation, Operations and Maintenance Act, 2003/2004.
Chairperson (interpretation): Page 3, on page 3, Schedule; Vote 1 options 1 and 2, Operations and Maintenance, Total. $699 million, 970 thousand dollars.
Mr. Nutarak (interpretation): Just a simple question regarding the main estimates.
For $699 million, 970 thousand dollars, is that for all the departments that we’ve reviewed or is this including the Capital appropriations?
For capital.
This is strictly for the Operations and Maintenance of the budget review that we’ve just gone through for the past couple of weeks.
What about the capital estimates?
Is there a separate bill for that?
The capital was done last fall and the supplementary bills were done earlier today, they are Bill 31 and 32.
So this is strictly the Operations and Maintenance for 2003/2004.
When are we going to deal and review the capital estimates?
I’m just concerned of those contracts we have to be dealt with.
We’re only dealing with some of the Branch Summary for those capital estimates and we had to go through the details just like we did last year.
I thought we would have to do that.
Some of the capital estimates I have questions about.
So, that’s why I’m asking these questions.
Hon. Kelvin Ng: Mr. Chairman, the capital bill was done last fall for the current, upcoming 2003/2004 fiscal years.
Those are the tenders that are out; some of those tenders are out now in the news papers.
The capital for the 2004/2005 year will be reviewed this coming fall once we go through the preparations and the appropriate standing committees etc.
We were going to meet till 9:00.
That’s why I just needed to kill a bit more time.
January, February 14, or the 12th, the Canadian Government had some funds for Pond Inlet for the airport terminal construction.
Do we need to approve that for that project here in the house?
There was one for Kugluktuk and Pond Inlet for the airport terminal construction.
There was an announcement recently but I haven’t seen it through these main estimates but I guess we don’t need go through the house for that?
There was a Supplementary Appropriation for the ship program agreement outside between CGT and the Federal Government.
I believe it took place in Pangnirtung session.
I couldn’t say, I can’t recall right now.
It’s a Pond Inlet terminal building was a part of that or if there is another one coming but I’ll certainly check on that for the member and advise him tomorrow.
Going back to bill 30.
Operations and Maintenance. $699 million, 970thousand Do you agree?
Total Operations and Maintenance. $699 million, 970thousand.
One of page 33.
Four, do you agree?
Five, do you agree?
Do you agree that bill 30 is now ready for third reading?
Chairperson (interpretation): Thank you, Sue.
Mr. Arvaluk (interpretation): It’s 9:00 o’clock now so I move to report progress.
Your Committee has been considering Bill 30, Bill 31, and Bill 32 and would like to report that Bills 30, 31, and 32, are ready for Third Reading.
Speaker: Mr. Chairman, there is a Motion on the Floor.
Is there seconder for the Motion?
Mr. Ng will second the Motion.
Bill 30 – Appropriation (Operations and Maintenance) Act 2003/2004 – Third Reading
Bill 31 – Supplementary Appropriation (Capital) Act, No. 3 2002-2003 – Third Reading
Bill 32 – Supplementary Appropriation (O and M) Act, No 2. 2002-2003 – Third Reading
I move seconded by the Honourable Member for Baffin South that Bill 30, the Appropriation Act 2003-2004, Bill 31, Supplementary Appropriation Act No. 3, 2002-2003, and Bill 32, Supplementary Appropriation Act No. 2, 2002-2003 be read for the Third time.
Speaker: Thank you, Minister Ng. The Motion is noted.
The Motion is carried, and Bill 30, Bill 31, and Bill 32 have had Third Reading.
Orders of the Day for Friday, March 28,2003
Motions  Motion 021-1(6)
First Reading of Bills  Bill 34
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Bill 28
This House stands adjourned until Friday, March 28, at 10:00 a.m.
>>House adjourned at 21:03  Nunavut Canada
Friday March 28, 2003
Pages 3480 – 3535
Opening Prayer 3480
Ministers’ Statements 3480
Members’ Statements 3482
Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery 3492
Oral Questions 3495
Revert to Item 5: Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery 3513
Return to Written Question 3513
Reports of Committees on the Review of Bills 3513
Tabling of Documents 3514
Motions 3515
IFirst Reading of Bills 3515
Second Reading of Bills 3516
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters 3518
Report of Committee of the Whole 3532
Third Reading of Bills 3532
Assent to Bills 3533
Orders of the Day 3534
Friday March 28, 2003 3480
155 – 1(6): Inuktitut Uqauttin Language Week (Akesuk) 3480
156 – 1(6): Pond Inlet Decentralization Completed (Kilabuk) 3481
157 – 1(6): Mineral Exploration (Akesuk) 3481
158 – 1(6): Gift to Baffin Regional Hospital (Picco) 3482
514 – 1(6): Hockey Tournament in Gjoa Haven (Puqiqnak) 3482
515 – 1(6): Decentralization in Pond Inlet (Nutarak) 3483
516 – 1(6): Gratitude to Constituents (Iqaqrialu) 3483
517 – 1(6): Celebrating Easter Sunday (Alakannuark) 3484
518 – 1(6): Thank Members and Constituents (Irqittuq) 3485
519 – 1(6): Travelling Schedule for the Week (Kilabuk) 3485
520 – 1(6): Session Activities – Thank Everybody (Okalik) 3486
521 – 1(6): Thanks Constituents and Members (Williams) 3486
522 – 1(6): Celebrating of the Signing of NLCA in Kugluktuk (Havioyak) 3487
523 – 1(6): Lost Chewing Gum (Kattuk) 3488
524 – 1(6): Spring Break Activities (Arvaluk) 3488
525 – 1(6): Thank Family, Constituents and Members (Thomspon) 3489
526 – 1(6): Celebrating Toonik Tyme (Picco) 3490
527 – 1(6): Spring Sitting in Baker Lake (McLean) 3491
519 – 1(6): Potential Cost of Fuel Stabilization Rider (Arvaluk) 3495
520 – 1(6): Increase of Fuel Cost (Iqaqrialu) 3496
521 – 1(6): Funding for Access Roads (Puqiqnak) 3497
522 – 1(6): Breakwater Study for the Communities (Irqittuq) 3499
523 – 1(6): Plans for Early Detection of Cancer (McLean) 3500
524 – 1(6): Plans for Community Based Training Programs (Havioyak) 3503
525 – 1(6): What Kind of Flu Closed the Pond Inlet School (Nutarak) 3504
526– 1(6): Update on Building a New Health Centre in Repulse Bay (Alakannuark) 3506
527 – 1(6): Update on Old Government Offices in Grise Fiord (Williams) 3507
528 – 1(6): Radiation Treatments in Nunavut for Cancer Patients (Iqaqrialu) 3507
529 – 1(6): Letter Re: Breakwater for Pond Inlet (Nutarak) 3510
530 – 1(6): Protection of Inuit Intellectual Properties (Puqiqnak) 3511
Return to Written Question 005 – 1(6): Request for Proposal (Clerk) 3513
014 – 1(6): Bill 29 – An Act to Amend the Nunavut Power Utilities Act and Certain Other Acts in Consequence (Iqaqrialu) 3514
104 – 1(6): Nunavut Liquor Commission Annual Report for 1999/2000 (Ng) 3514
105 – 1(6): Nunavut Liquor Commission Annual Report for 2000/2001 (Ng) 3514
106 – 1(6): Nunavut Liquor Commission Annual Report for 2001/2002 (Ng) 3514
107 – 1(6): 2003 Corporate Plan of the Workers' Compensation Board of the NWT and Nunavut (Ng) 3514
108 – 1(6): Grants and Contributions for CLEY 2002/2003 (Akesuk) 3514
021 – 1(6): Extended Adjournment (McLean) 3515
Bill 34 – An Act to Amend the International Sales of Goods Act – First Reading 3515
Bill 35 – Wildlife Act – First Reading 3516
Bill 34 – An Act to Amend the International Sales of Goods Act – Second Reading 3516
Bill 35 – Wildlife Act – Second Reading 3517
Bill 28 – An Act to Amend the Young Offenders Act and Other Acts in Consequence – Third Reading 3532
Bill 29 – An Act to Amend the Nunavut Power Utilities Act and Certain Other Acts in Consequence – Third Reading 3533
Bill 22 – An Act to Amend the Securities Act – Assent 3533
Bill 23 – An Act to Amend the Cities, Towns, and Villages Act – Assent 3533
Bill 24 – An Act to Amend the Hamlet Act – Assent 3533
Bill 28 – An Act to Amend the Young Offenders Act and Other Acts in Consequence – Assent 3533
Bill 29 – An Act to Amend the Nunavut Power Utilities Act and Certain Other Acts in Consequence – Assent 3533
Bill 30 – Appropriation (Operations and Maintenance) Act 2003/2004 – Assent 3533
Bill 31 – Supplementary Appropriation (Capital) Act, No. 3 2002-2003 – Assent 3533
Bill 32 – Supplementary Appropriation (O and M) Act, No 2. 2002-2003 – Assent 3533
Speaker (Mr. O’Brien): I would like to call on to Mr. Havioyak to say the opening prayer.
Minister Akesuk
Minister’s Statement 155 – 1(6): Inuktitut Uqauttin Language Week
I rise every day in the House.
I say hello to my constituents in Cape Dorset and Kimmirut.
Mr. Speaker, as minister of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth, it is my pleasure to announce that Inuktitut Uqauttin Week has been proclaimed for the week of April 27 to May 3.
Inuktitut Uqauttin Language Week has been successful in raising awareness about how we use Inuktitut in our homes, our communities and our workplaces.
My department once again will be working with our partners at Nunavut Tunngavik, the regional Inuit Associations, the Languages Commissioner and communities across Nunavut to celebrate Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun.
Our language is so much a part of our lives that many of us take it for granted.
Inuktitut Uqauttin Language Week gives us a chance once a year to celebrate our rich language and the importance role it plays in our new territory of Nunavut.
Mr. Speaker, I urge all Nunavummiut to come out and take part in the celebrations that will be happening in every community across Nunavut as part of our Inuktitut Uqauttin Language Week.
Speaker: Thank you, Ministers.
Minister’s Statement 156 – 1(6): Pond Inlet Decentralization Completed
Mr. Speaker, it is with pleasure that I rise today to announce the completion of the Department of Education Decentralization initiative.
The move of the Qikiqtani School Operations from Iqaluit to Pond Inlet during the last week of February 2003 was the last office to relocate.
The department has now met it’s commitment to this process.
The last 11 positions that moved to Pond Inlet joined the 6 positions already stationed there for a total of 17 Department of Education positions in Pond Inlet.
The move to Pond Inlet has been planned for some time and all staff in Iqaluit was aware that this was to occur.
Some employees chose not to relocate.
All staff hired in the past year have either been term positions or hired with the understanding that they would move to Pond Inlet.
Mr. Speaker, the Department of Education is now one of the most decentralized departments within the government.
It has regional offices in eight communities as well as a presence in every community through the schools and colleges.
Minister’s Statement 157 – 1(6): Mineral Exploration
Mr. Speaker, I would like to take a moment to update the members on mineral exploration activities in the territory’s and our vision for this sector.
As many members know the Doris Hinge project and the Jericho Project in Kitikmeot are in their final stages of the environmental assessment process.
With the increase in exploration activities now almost $70 million per year we are hearing in new discoveries across the territory.
Most recently we heard about a new discovery of diamonds west of Igloolik and Hall Beach in the Melville Peninsula.
Nunavut’s great mineral potential has been recognized as every region of the territory is being explored.
Our regulatory structures created under the Land Claims are shown to be effective and efficient.
With the increase of exploration across the territory I believe mining will form a foundation for a strong and diverse economy that provides employment opportunities in Nunavummiut in every community.
Mr. Speaker, as this sector develops we will ensure that all new developments meet our goals and sustainable development in Nunavut.
All projects will have to demonstrate that they are economically viable and will have strong profits.
All projects will have to demonstrate that they will not damage our environment and that any impacts on environment can be mitigated and reclaimed.
All projects have to demonstrate the they can provide substantial and sustainable benefits to the people and communities of Nunavut.
Mr. Speaker, we have entered a new era for mineral exploration and mining in Nunavut and this new era has great promise.
Mr. Speaker, I would also like to announce that the 7th International Symposium on Mining in the Arctic is taking place this weekend from March 29 to April 1.
Minister’s Statement 158 – 1(6): Gift to Baffin Regional Hospital
Hon. Ed. Picco: Good morning Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker, there are many ways to celebrate a success in business.
But those ways do not always result in a generous donation to a worthwhile cause.
However, when Urbco Inc. and its staff decided to celebrate in a very special way it took the $25 thousand that had been set aside for a grand celebration and gave it back to the two major communities in which it does business, Iqaluit and Yellowknife.
That is why, Mr. Speaker, the Baffin Regional Hospital has a brand new pediatric ventilator for babies, an important piece of medical equipment with which to serve the youngest and most vulnerable of our patients.
The Department of Health and Social Services is very grateful to the management and staff of Northern Property Real Estate Investment Trust with a valuable gist that will continue to give back to the community for years to come.
Are there any further Minister’s Statements?
Member’s Statement 514 – 1(6): Hockey Tournament in Gjoa Haven
I would like to say hello to my constituents back home.
I am very pleased to rise today to talk about Gjoa Haven as it’s a hockey town.
Hockey players ranging from 5 year olds to 75 + year olds participate in the sport and the arena is open seven days a week so it is a well utilized facility in our community.
Gjoa Haven has hosted a Hockey tournament since the arena was built in the early 1990s and the number of players increases each year.
Hockey has become part of the daily routine in Gjoa Haven.
Gjoa Haven will be hosting a tournament over the weekend of April 4, 5 and 6 2003.
There will be 7 teams participating in the tournament. 5 from Gjoa Haven, 1 from Taloyoak, and 1 team from Baker Lake for at least 3 days.
Gjoa Haven is also hosting a junior hockey tournament later in the month on April 24, 25, and 26, 2003.
The participants will be coming from Taloyoak and Kugaaruk.
The Gjoa Haven Hockey Association is fundraising and planning to send a Junior Hockey Team League to Yellowknife to attend the First Air-Labatt Hockey Tournament for April 17, 18, and 19, 2003.
The fundraising involves having the Association run a fun town tournament on the following hockey and volleyball tournaments for the whole town.
It has been a special event for the people of Gjoa Haven.
I invite you to attend.
Member’s Statement 515 – 1(6): Decentralization in Pond Inlet
I feared that I was going to be the last one to be rising today.
Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the Minister of Education for following through on the decentralization plans of the Department of Education, and for making an announcement today on a number of positions that will be relocated to Pond Inlet.
We are pleased that the Department of Education has now relocated.
For the information of my constituents in Pond Inlet, I will be seeing you shortly, depending on the weather.
Member’s Statement 516 – 1(6): Gratitude to Constituents
Mr. Speaker, I rise today on Friday, which I believe is the last day of our current Session.
I would like to send my gratitude to my constituents in Clyde River, and Broughton Island, it is on their behalf that I am able to rise in the House and express their wishes.
The people of Nunavut have been listening closely to what I have had to say in the House since 1999.
I am acutely aware of representing the people of Nunavut, their culture, and their language within the Government of Nunavut.
This is something that is very important to me.
I am always looking for ways to boost economic opportunities in order to better the lives of Nunavummiut, particularly in the smaller communities.
It is especially important that we try to be fair and equitable in distributing economic benefits, especially for the smaller communities.
That being the case, Nunavummiut and the smaller communities deserve to be well represented in the Legislative Assembly and by Cabinet members.
I am very proud because I believe that the lives of Nunavummiut will improve as a result.
I caution, however, that we will not always going to be hearing only good news.
Things have always been that way.
I would also like to say that many of the ways of Qallunaat are desirable, just as many aspects of Inuit culture are too.
It is not enough, however, to concentrate strictly on these positive features because we will always see negative things so long as we live here on this planet.
The work will always be there to improve the things that need to be addressed, whether they be easy and self gratifying, or complex and difficult.