Bob Bromley

Thanks for that response. It’s obviously because of devolution that this is happening. I know the Minister is claiming that we’re being very efficient with these dollars, but here we are not using the money that was intended for this sort of expense.

How can the Minister justify not using the surplus devolution implementation dollars to supply market housing in our communities that is clearly the result of decentralization of devolved positions from the government?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Of the early childhood development and learning, the $8.243 million, the top line, I’m wondering what amount is going to the implementation of junior kindergarten.

Again, just for my simplistic understanding here, we don’t anticipate the general amount to change over the course of those 35 years or whatever. Is that correct?

I asked because sitting on the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Infrastructure, and I think it’s okay to speak about what we don’t know in those committees, I have not seen any briefing whatsoever on what’s going on with this 34 days before its implementation, and there’s been a huge about-face from the last time we were given a briefing. I have serious concerns about costs here.

The people aren’t here. The structure is not here. Is the budget here in this document?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. One thing I meant to get to was on the sport hunt outfitter marketing support. I, and I know other Members, have met with the outfitters in this area and they’re basically edging on bankruptcy because of the loss of caribou. There was some hope that the herd would recover in time to rescue these businesses, and some of them have basically put their lifetime’s worth of savings and investments into the business. It’s now looking like this is not feasible within the timescale that would allow them to recover anything.

Would the Minister be willing to work with these few...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to ask: I don’t see in the organizational chart, which is at the beginning of the document here, where the regulator is. I understand the Minister is taking on the regulator role from the NEB and I didn’t see a recognition of that office in the personnel summary either. I don’t know whether it’s in corporate management, and I’d be happy to ask my questions on that wherever it’s appropriate, but I thought I would bring it up at my first general opportunity here. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to start by expressing appreciation to my colleague Mr. Dolynny for bringing this motion forward.

Frankly, I’ve found the discussion so far refreshing. A lot of this information is being presented with the clarity that we haven’t had before because of the interviewing, questioning skills of Members. So I’m learning and I appreciate that. I will be supporting this motion because I think it’s something we’ve talked about without doing. I know that the Department of Finance, the Minister has been interested in that from time to time and probably has done a little bit...

That’s all I had. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I know what I’ve been paying for hunting licences and I know they increased in recent years and I’m sure the revenue is a lot more than that. This is nothing short of shameful. Does the Minister plan on upping these fees?

I wasn’t jumping back and forth between rows enough to completely follow that, but I guess I did understand that the estimate for this year of $105 million, roughly, was about $38 million lower than expected, and I’m wondering how we could possibly make such a high projection there. Is that us who do that? Is that the GNWT that makes that projection?