Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d also like to recognize a couple of Weledeh constituents, Chief Ernest Betsina and Mary Rose Sundberg. I’d also like to recognize and thank all of the folks that are working on the language groups. That’s very important work that they’re doing and I very much appreciate that. Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My understanding was we wanted to make sure that people had additional supplementary benefits and health benefits coverage beyond the territorial GNWT coverage in order to protect GNWT resources, essentially third-party, and that we were going to promote that. That’s the statistic that I’m looking for.

Thank you. Very briefly…

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Thank you. Is territorial coverage, GNWT coverage, included in the 90 percent?

That’s obvious, I would say, given that we’re only up two here net, but we’ve heard about six new positions. It suggests that two of those new positions must be paid in the order of $300,000 or something like that. Again, the math is fuzzy. I note that the other divisions do manage their compensation and benefits in just about every case. Just in the directorate we seem to have this issue. Thank you.

Really the point is here that we only hear about the challenges and kerfuffles when we visit the hospital as committee. I think it would be useful to hear from the Minister some objective assessment of this situation so that we can help him make sure that situation is managed. I’ll leave it at that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to recognize Bob Wilson, a long-standing member of the Weledeh riding. Welcome to the House. I’d also like to recognize a couple of hardworking Pages, Linnea Stephenson and Harvey Fells, and thanks to all of the Pages that are serving us here today.

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

Thanks. I’m willing to accept an estimate. We certainly know what the department has increased each year; it’s reported in these big thick documents. So just apply that and compare that to the 2.2 percent with it. That would be good to know.

It’s something obviously we’ve been talking about for a long time. I know we were actively negotiating pushing in the 16th and I’d love to hear that we’re still getting serious with the federal government on this. Thank you.

I believe I heard that this represents 95 percent of the costs, these two figures added together, about $30 million of some costs and we pay the other 5 percent and perhaps that expense is listed in here somewhere. Maybe the Minister can give me a heads-up on where that shows up in our O and M on the other side of the equation here. But I’m assuming that there are other costs beyond these. How and where are they covered?