Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Madam Chair. When is the anticipated date of completion for these renovations pursuant to the $1.5 million we have before us today? Thank you.

Now the story is starting to be a little bit clearer. So we’ve got $1 million that’s destined to be spent next year, we’re trying to spend $1.5 million this year for tenant improvements. This is money that we’ve had in our public coffers since May of 2014. Is this money accruing any type of interest? Where is it parked exactly? Thank you.

So it’s safe to assume that that $1 million that was in last year’s main estimates were spent directly on the YK Centre tenant improvements? Thank you.

Thank you. I liked the Minister’s reply. I know they’re doing lots of work behind the scenes and I applaud their actions and I encourage them to continue.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I’d like to welcome the department here again today for the appropriations. Maybe if we can just start this off with a simple lead-in question here, if we can get some level of explanation what this $1.5 million means with respect to tenant improvements. Thank you.

Everything that we do here is to provide facts for the public to understand the money that we’re spending on their behalf, and as the Minister indicated, there was correspondence given to Members. I don’t believe that information, in terms of public utility letters, is in the public domain. But I know that Members on this side of the House received some correspondence just in the last week or so, which puts Members in a bit of a handicap situation because we weren’t made aware of the correspondence to and fro between the Public Utilities Board and the department. Can the department confirm if...

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In continuing my daily ritual of evaluating the performance of the McLeod government, today I want to reference my tabled document of Tuesday, September 29, 2015, and spend some time on our revenue concerns, both federal and own source.

By all accounts, our GNWT revenue grew by 149.79 percent from 2000 to today, and was substantially more than operation spending growth of 115 percent during the same period. However, with federal transfers currently accounting for more than 70 percent of GNWT revenue, and with only modest NWT population growth over these 15 years, we...

Thank you. Again, I’m getting a very blurred response, Madam Chair. The money saved last year is definitely being spent this year. So at the end of the day, the net impact is zero. The question still remains with the two installments that we’ve had already on this project, there’s a third installment left on these 802 firebombers. It’s going to be a small residual left, according to the math if you’re looking at the appropriations. Again, are we still on target of a slightly over $30 million project for the purchase of the 802s? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. We’ll turn our attention to Minister of Finance, Mr. Miltenberger.