Daryl Dolynny

I guess the rationale for my questioning is that sometimes in business the quickest fix to find money is to go lean on insurance and do a re-evaluation of your replacement costs and depreciate those costs to the tune where it makes it very difficult to make that investment. I’m just hoping that we as a government are maintaining the right level of insurance for the amount of assets we have coming on our books. That’s my rationale for the question, Mr. Chair.

We know that this area of the activity is involved with debt management. With that, we know that the Macroeconomic Policy, which is used...

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Do you have witnesses you want to bring into the House today?

I just want to make sure that I don’t mask savings with responsibility of accounting. I want to make sure that the accounting does make sense. I represent one of those liquor stores in my riding that is gravely affected by this change. I want to make sure that there is no disruption in service. I want to make sure that this business is duly protected under this new model and that I don’t want to see any undue hardship, financial or otherwise, being put on this business and including the business in the downtown. Again, I received a commitment that there will be some information sharing and I’m...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We know that this category involves the insurance, basically the risk management of the GNWT. We know that in the past we continuously have heard that there’s a change in our Risk Management Framework, which I would assume would affect how we calculate our premiums for our insurance evaluation assessment. We know that when we’ve done this in the past, large items of infrastructure such as the Deh Cho Bridge and Inuvik school were slow to get trickled on to our insurance line. So with that, and because I have yet to see a document of our Risk Management Framework publicly...

Alright, committee. We’ll commence after just a short break.

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I appreciate the information that this was effective September. I’m assuming September of 2014, I would assume, and it’s not in effect now? Or is it in effect in 2015?

Historically, has the Department of Finance ever, with unfunded or funded positions, moved any money or appropriated the money by taking it out of this category of compensation and benefits and used it in other areas within the Department of Finance in historical purposes? Thank you.

What is the wish of committee? Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I have been looking at this number ever since we had an opportunity to review these numbers months ago. I still found it odd where we’re forecasting in terms of revenues in the Liquor Revolving Fund, knowing we are going from a private to a consignment store model in Yellowknife and looking at the proportionate amount of margin and extra dollars that this would generate. Yet I don’t see it translated in here because 50 percent of our population and 50 percent of our sales are going to be greatly affected with those two, both in dollars and in margin.

Can the department...

The fog is starting to lift here. I’m seeing some of the numbers more clearly in that perspective and I appreciate the deputy minister’s response to that. I guess the question remains right now, as we speak, how many positons are currently vacant in the Department of Finance?