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I would like to ask Mr. Clendenning again that if this Assembly and the Cabinet were to agree to be your partner and approve certain funds, that you would then be able to develop the program pretty much sort of, maybe and expand part of this program in Iqaluit to Kivalliq Region and once the funds were approved by the House, then you would be able to begin a training program for interpreter training.
Mr. Clendenning: The minister approves base funding for programs for the college and as President it is my responsibility to implement the program once the base funding has been established.
So until we know what the base funding would be, I wouldn’t be able to comment to say that we could implement that as soon as September.
I’m sure Mr. Clendenning, through your board; you have a capital planning or program planning program.
Would your board be willing to consider expanding that program and recommend through either the minister or agency who you would want to partner with that there is a demand, have you actually demand study, what not, if not why not?
Chairman: Thank you, Mr. Curley, Mr. Clendenning.
I can tell you that the board fully supports the expansion of our language and culture programs and would like to see that program become an interval part of all of our base funded programs.
We haven’t dealt specifically with the need for an expansion of the interpreter program into the Kivalliq region but I’m sure the board would support taking that next step.
Mr. Curley: Thank you, I appreciate that, and I am getting the information which are important not only to me but to the house because I said earlier, Rankin Inlet will not become the base like Iqaluit for civil servants.
It’s going to become the centre for private sector willing to expand and create opportunities in business-related business.
Interpreter training is one of them, that they can get into the private sector and use their services for the government as well as the federal agency, including the backlog that we have with the court justice issues, so I’m asking you, will you treat this requirement as one of the priorities for the coming year?
Thank you.  Chairman: Thank you, Mr. Curley.
Yes, as we develop our business plan for the coming year, we will look at that issue and ask the board to consider how we might be able to accommodate an extension of the program into the Kivalliq region.
Chairman: Thank you, Mr. Clendenning. Mr. Curley, your time has ended. If you have any further questions, I’ll put your name back in later on after the members ask their questions.
I would like to ask the minister, we’ve been doing a lot of talking in the last five or six months about Nunavut trade school since Arviat, I’m wondering if the minister can comment on the present status of the Nunavut trades board committee. Is there such a thing in existence?
There are several boards and agencies working within the trades’ area in Nunavut.
A good example would be the apprenticeship trades board that’s in place that works on the certification of apprentices and so on.
Under the labour market development agreement that we have in place, we also have committees that we set up looking at the training aspects, we have also the line training committee is another group that are looking at opportunities on careers and professions under that type of occupation.
So I think a quick answer to the member’s question is yes.
Mr. Peterson, Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you minister for that information, I think I’m more interested in the status of the apprenticeship trades board since this seems to be more related or in reference to a Nunavut trade school.
How active is the trades’ board?
Is it very active? Does it meet once or twice a year?
Do they meet at all?
Do they get any funding from our government?
Could the minister respond please?
The apprenticeship board is an active board. It was set up after the division of the territories, the money that is in place for the board comes out of the Department of Education in this line item.
The apprenticeship board itself includes the maintaining of our registry of indenture of the apprenticeship, maintaining the relationship with the board itself, undertaking the initiative with the training and providers and so on.
I don’t have the information to tell you when the last meeting was held of the board.
Does the Apprenticeship Trade Board receive direction from the Minister in respect to their duties under any Acts in Nunavut?
I just received that extra information on the Trades Board.
The Apprenticeship Board meets 3 times a year and tries to meet in each region of Nunavut.
The next meeting was held in February 2005 that means they just had a meeting of the Board.
The funding of the Board comes from the Department of Education.
The mandate of the board again is to meet as well to meet the issues around apprenticeship and trades in Nunavut itself.
I don’t give any direction to the Nunavut Apprenticeship Board, or NAB.
I don’t give political direction to the NAB.
They are an independent quazi-judicial Board that works outside the encompasses of government.
It doesn’t take direction from the Government or the Minister.
I am sure that there is an interesting one announcement of a Nunavut Trade School.
So I am wondering if the Apprenticeship Trades Board will be involved.
Will it be involved in continuing discussions and debates on the establishment of a Nunavut Trade School somewhere in Nunavut?
Myself as the Minister of Education, I haven’t got issued any political direction to the Board itself.
The Board reviews and receives all appeals under the Apprenticeship Act and will perform the duties the Minister imposed within the Apprenticeship Act, itself. I haven’t imposed under the Act itself.
I wasn’t asking if you are imposing anything under the Act.
Will the Trades Board be actually consulted in continuing discussion on the establishment of a Trades School in Nunavut or some parts of the Trades School depending where?
You have hairdressing in Iqaluit and you say something related to mining in the Kitikmeot.
Will they be involved in those discussions?
Part of the work of the Board would in consultation with the Department of Education on the Pre-vocational Training.
So I guess the short answer would be yes.
We would expect with the Apprenticeship Board would be consulted on any type of logistic, administrative work that would be going further on the Vocational Training aspects for people.
That would be a whole part of the Adult Learning Strategy that we have talked about and the mines training strategy that is done already where that consultative work would be in place.
So I would expect Mr. Chairman, the short answer would be yes, consultation work with and to conquer with the Nunavut Apprenticeship Board.
Your peripheral vision is good today.
I hope you see the right wing during the hockey game.
Could the Minister tell the members the make up of the Board and where they come from?
How much annual funding they get from to deliver their mandate?
The apprenticeship board is made up of representatives from the public, from the business and from the trade community.
The funding that we have in the budget enables the apprenticeship board to fulfill its mandate by meeting face-to-face, up to three times a year, once in each of the regions and we’ve just said that.
The funding would also enable the Chairperson to represent at national apprenticeships meetings where feasible and plausible.
The amount of money within the budget itself can be found on tab G-11, I believe.
The amount that’s there is about $106,000, again that includes issues around travel and so on with holding meetings.
I know it’s a moderate amount of funding but that’s what’s been budgeted and it’s been pretty consistent.
So, it is $106,000 Mr. Chairman, that’s in place before the apprenticeship board under tab G-11.
I would like to turn to page G-12, the college contributions.
I understand that the department conducted an external review, I think in October 2004, and the report was titled Time to Move Forward.
Could the Minister tell us what that report said and what the major recommendations were in that report?
When I first became the Minister of Education, I met with the Board of Governors of the college and I directed the college to do an external review of the college on its programs, its services, the financial aspects of the college.
The report was an internal report to me as Minister.
I gave a copy of the report to the President, Mr. Bob Leonard and a copy of the executive summary was adopted by the Board of Governors just recently at their last Board Meeting.
There were 75 recommendations in that report to help move the college forward.
Some of them were fiscal, some were financial, some were administrative and some of them were logistic.
We have adopted the 75 recommendations through the Board of Governors and we’re following through.
For example, on the fiscal side the college was cut by a little over a $1 million last year in it’s base budget like the Department of Education which was cut over $3 million.
One of the first recommendations was to try to restore that.
That has occurred in this budget.
We have also moved forward with some of the issues around the current deficit that the college had.
That is being addressed with a deficit reduction plan in place by the college.
So, there are a lot of logistic as well as administrative and financial issues in that report, out of those 75 recommendations, that are being acted on and will be acted on.
That is the status of the report.
Mr. Peterson: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 75 recommendations sound like a lot.
I don’t think the Power Corporation had that many recommendations.
Is the Minister prepared to table that document in the House for the information the members?
The whole process and point of an external review of the college was a private document that was made available to me as Minister because I had requested it.
I was following up on that report with an external review of the NTEP program.
The report itself is not for public consumption.
There were some issue raised in the report itself that I found to be in the mode of character assassination in some of the comments that were made and I would not be in a position to table that.
However, what I would do to the members is in consultation with the chair of the Board of Governors of the Nunavut Arctic College, to speak with him and to see if there was acquiescence on their part to agree with me to table the Executive Summary of the report which would include the recommendations which the Board of Governors has adopted.
I would be in a position to do that.
Our senior managers are actually meeting in Rankin Inlet today to deal with the recommendations of the report and then bring that information back to the president, Mr. Clendenning as well as bring it back to the Board of Governors.
So, the recommendations are being acted on.
The Minister piqued my interest when he said character assassinations.
It would be quite interesting to read but I understand that there might be some sensitivity there.
However, I think it’s important that we see some of that information.
If the Minister could commit to talking to the President or the Chairman so that we can get that document tabled in the House tomorrow, the Executive Summary at least, I would appreciate it.
First of all, I will have an opportunity, I am sure, in the next 24-hours to speak to the Chairman.
I don’t know if the Chairman is available.
Again, the report was made, was asked for by me.
The document was forwarded to me as Minister and at any given time, ministers have an opportunity to do review and so on that is not usually brought out to the public function.
However, public money is spent for public interest as Mr. Curley said.
So again, I find myself in agreement with Mr. Curley and this is causing some headaches to me over the last couple of days, Mr. Chairman.
I would hope to be in a position to do what the member has said.
I would be in a position I think, to be able to table the Executive Summary hopefully by some time tomorrow afternoon, but again I have to have the concurrence and I would like to speak to the Chair of the College Board of Governors and everything beforehand.
Committee Motion 001 – 2(2): To Defer Adult Learning and Post Secondary Services
Mr. Curley said that it’s in the public interest, its public monies.
So I would be prepared to suggest that maybe we defer consideration of the college contributions of $15,707,000 until the minister tables the Executive Summary tomorrow for us to review.
I would like to ask Mr. Peterson, are you deferring the motion, making a motion to the Adult Learning and Post-secondary Service?
Mr. Peterson: Yes.
Chairman: To the motion.
Are you agreeing to the motion?
Chairman: Do all of you understand the motion to defer Adult Learning and Post-secondary Service?
The motion?
Are you all in agreement?
We will go to G-14.
Mr. Chairman, just for clarification purposes, I never had a chance to speak to the Committee Motion.
In most cases under the Committee Motion, every member has an opportunity to speak to that motion.
In this case I just want to ask a point of clarification. I’m not voting against the motion or anything like that.
I just want to know in your motion, what the deadline was.
So for example, tomorrow at 2:30 in the afternoon when we get to that point on the agenda, when you can do tabled documents and I table the report then when we get back to Committee of the Whole, we can return to G-12 to Adult Learning and Post-secondary Services, I’m not trying to delay this process.
I think as an Assembly and to show respect, I should have an opportunity to speak to the Chair Mr. Bob Leonard, before I table it in the House and make the document public. That’s all I’m saying. I have copies of it right here with me but again I would like to have that opportunity to speak to Mr. Leonard.
If you could rephrase and tell me when and if you would agree if that’s the focus of your motion that indeed after I speak to Mr. Leonard and if I table that tomorrow, we can go right to the G-12 and get the college budget approved. So, that’s all I’m asking for a point of clarification.
Chairman: Okay. Thank you, Minister Picco.
To the motion, I would like to ask the mover, Mr. Peterson.
I appreciate the Minister’s concern for us to clarify yes; I would like it if it’s tabled by 2:30 tomorrow, approximate time, then we would go back to this section during Committee of the Whole tomorrow afternoon, March 2nd.
We’re on G-14, Education.
Career and Early Childhood Services.
Mr. Netser (interpretation): I would like to take this opportunity to report progress.
I’d like to thank the Minister and your staff for being at the witness table.
Speaker (interpretation): Back to the orders of the day, Item 21, Report of Committee of the Whole.
Your committee has been considering Bill 8 and the Main Estimates and would like to report progress.
Mr. Mapsalak is the seconder.
Speaker (interpretation): Motion is carried.
A reminder there is a meeting of the Management Services Board tomorrow morning at the Tuktu room and Regular Members’ Caucus tomorrow at 11:00 in the Nanuq Board Room.
Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 2nd.
Motion 11
We will reconvene on Wednesday, March 02, 2005 at 1:30 p.m.
>>House adjourned at 18:07  Nunavut Canada
Wednesday March 2, 2005
Pages 982 – 1055
Opening Prayer 982
Ministers’ Statements 982
Members’ Statements 984
Oral Questions 988
Written Questions 1006
Tabling of Documents 1007
Motions 1009
First Reading of Bills 1013
Second Reading of Bills 1013
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters 1015
Report of the Committee of the Whole 1053
Orders of the Day 1054
Wednesday March 2, 2005 982
061 – 2(2): Akausisarvik Transfer (Brown) 982
062 – 2(2): Long Term Service Award Ceremonies (Tapardjuk) 983
131 – 2(2): Arctic Bay Sewage Lagoon (Barnabas) 984
132 – 2(2): New Members (Aglukkaq) 984
133 – 2(2): Polar Bear Quota Increase in Sanikiluaq (Kattuk) 985
134 – 2(2): APTN Broadcast in English Only (Tapardjuk) 985
135 – 2(2): Power Restored in Panniqtuuq (Kilabuk) 986
136 – 2(2): Four Hunters in Cape Dorset Rescued (Akesuk) 986
137 – 2(2): Funding for Illitiit Society (Tootoo) 986
138 – 2(2): Robbie Qamaniq Letter (Netser) 987
175 – 2(2): Steps for More Efficient Energy (Tootoo) 988
176 – 2(2): Status of Sewage and Sanitation Plans (Barnabas) 991
177 – 2(2): URRC Funding from Qulliq Energy (Curley) 992
178 – 2(2): Items Deleted in the KPMG Report (Peterson) 995
179 – 2(2): Update on the Pimmaqsarvik Service Contract (Netser) 997
180 – 2(2): Octane Additive in Gasoline Fuel (Alagalak) 997
181 – 2(2): Bad Fuel Concern (Kattuk) 999
182 – 2(2): Additional Octane Additives for Other Communities (Arreak) 1000
183 – 2(2): Obtaining Passport Photos in the Communities (Barnabas) 1001
184 – 2(2): Deferred Pay System – Implementation of P2K (Tootoo) 1004
025 – 2(2): Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs and Costs (Peterson) 1006
078 – 2(2): Arctic Bay Reallocation of Capital Fund (Barnabas) 1007
079 – 2(2): Letter HTO Request for Fish Plant (Arreak) 1007
080 – 2(2): Kivalliq Mayors’ Support for Inuit Centre (Netser) 1007
081 – 2(2): Letter from Minister Kilabuk on Bad Gasoline (Netser) 1007
082 – 2(2): “Aaqqiagarniq” Executive Summary of the External Review of Nunavut Arctic – October 28, 2004 (Picco) 1008
083 – 2(2): Nunavut Development Corporation 2005/06 Business Plans (Simailak) 1008
084 – 2(2): Nunavut Development Corporation Investment Guidelines (Simailak) 1008
085 – 2(2): Agricultural Products Marketing Act Annual Report 1999-2004 (Simailak) 1008
086 – 2(2): Payment of Member Indemnity, Allowances and Expenses for Members of the 1st Assembly Year Ending March 31st, 2005 (Speaker) 1008
087 – 2(2): Response to Petition 001 – 2(2) Rankin Inlet Elders Care Facility (Clerk) 1009
088 – 2(2): Response to Petition 002 – 2(2) Construction of a Mini Mall in Clyde River (Clerk) 1009
011 – 2(2): Mid Term Leadership Review of the Executive Council of Nunavut (Curley) 1009
Bill 13 – An Act to Amend the Wills Act – First Reading 1013
Bill 14 – Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act – First Reading 1013
Bill 13 – An Act to Amend the Wills Act – Second Reading 1014
Bill 14 – Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act– Second Reading 1014
Wednesday, March 2, 2005
Good afternoon Premier, Ministers and the members.
Minister’s Statement 061 – 2(2): Akausisarvik Transfer
I rise today to announce that the Department of Health and Social Services will envelope control of Akausarsivik Mental Health Facility as of April 1st, 2005 from the Pairijait Tigummivik Society.
Cabinet has approved this choice of action.
The Pairijait Tigummivik Elders’ Society agrees that the responsibility for the operations should be transferred to the department.
The profiles and needs of the client group at Akausarsivik require the kind of support that is more readily available through the Department of Health and Social Services rather than a community-based organization.
The Elders’ Society, Health and Social Services, and the Department of Human Resources have discussed the transition process and its effects on the staff.
The Labour Relations Division of the Department of Human Resources has also been involved with the process.
Mr. Speaker, every effort will be made to retain the current staff to Akausarsivik with modified job descriptions and training available for current employees to fulfill future Government of Nunavut job duties.
We are committed to bringing care for persons with mental health issues who experience challenges in independent living arrangements.
Speaker (interpretation): Thank you, Ms. Brown. Ministers’ statements, Mr. Tapardjuk.
Minister’s Statement 062 – 2(2): Long Term Service Award Ceremonies
I would like to take this opportunity to recognize the continued efforts and contributions of our employees who have served long periods of employment within the public service.
Long-term service award ceremonies recognizing employees with 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 continuous years of service with the Government of Nunavut and the Government of the Northwest Territories, are being held this year in 18 communities in Nunavut for approximately 360 employees.
Mr. Speaker, for this year’s awards, I would like to acknowledge the four 30-year recipients.
Heather Anne Swinton from Iqaluit, who works with the Department of Health and Social Services, Doug Crossley from the Department of Community and Government Services in Cambridge Bay, and teachers Johnny Meeko from Sanikiluaq and Mary Hutchings from Cape Dorset.
Mr. Speaker, over 100 employees received 5 and 10 year awards at the ceremony here in Iqaluit.
Ceremonies have also been held in Arctic Bay, Arviat, Baker Lake, Cambridge Bay, Cape Dorset, Chesterfield Inlet, Coral Harbour, Gjoa Haven, Pangnirtung, Rankin Inlet, Repulse Bay and Taloyoak.
I would like to thank my colleagues who were able to participate in these awards.
Upcoming long-term service award events are scheduled for Clyde River, Hall Beach, Igloolik and Pond Inlet.
Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to invite all Members of the Legislative Assembly to the long-term service ceremony for employees receiving 15, 20, 25 and 30 year awards in Iqaluit.
It will be held this evening at the Frobisher Inn starting at 6:30 tonight.
I am looking forward to seeing you there.
Member's Statement 131 – 2(2): Arctic Bay Sewage Lagoon
I rise today regarding the Arctic Bay sewage lagoon.
This is not the first time that I have raised this issue in the House.
I am aware that water and waste water projects in several communities are benefiting from the federal Strategic Infrastructure Fund.
Mr. Speaker, the funding for sewage and sanitation in Arctic Bay has not been in the actual Capital Estimates since 2002-03.
Since then, funding for the projects has been carried over the new budget years and funding has been added to projects on an emergency by emergency basis.
Correspondence from the Minister in July of 2004 indicated that emergency funding was being added to the project and that technical evaluation would be necessary.
Correspondence in January of this year indicated that funding would be moved out of the project because a lower than expected tender has been accepted and that there was a surplus.
Correspondence that I received in the past couple of weeks show a further decrease in funding for this project, stating once again that the lagoon will require additional technical evaluation this summer.
Mr. Speaker, members will recall that the Hamlet of Arctic Bay was notified in the summer of 2003 that the lagoon was not in compliance with federal regulations and that hamlet officials could face jail time or fines if the situation was not corrected.
I am confused about the priority that is being placed on this project.
The 2005 – 2010 capital plans does not contain any additional funding for technical evaluation.
Correspondence from the minister has done little to clarify the current status of the project.
Mr. Speaker, I will be asking the minister questions on this matter at the appropriate time.
Members’ statements, Ms. Aglukkaq.
Member's Statement 132 – 2(2): New Members
Today, I want to talk about the new members that were elected in Gjoa Haven to the Kagiqluk Development Corporation, James Qitsualik, president, Inuk Pauloosie, vice-president, Joseph Aglukkaq, secretary treasurer and the board members are David Porter, Paula Eleeheetoo, Wally Porter, Danny Okpik and Andrew Porter.
They are taking a proactive approach to develop a corporation which will help greatly with the opportunities the mining sector has to offer.
I was very pleased to hear about this new committee.
Members’ statements, Mr. Kattuk.
Member's Statement 133 – 2(2): Polar Bear Quota Increase in Sanikiluaq
Yesterday, I had asked this question to the Minister of Environment on the issue of polar bear management in the Hudson Bay area.
I was pleased to hear the Minister of Environment announce the increase to Nunavut’s total allowable harvest of polar bears.
However, my constituents in Sanikiluaq have expressed concern that no increase has been given to southern Hudson Bay.
Mr. Speaker, I understand that increase was not given to my community because further population studies need to be made for Sanikiluaq.