Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am listening to the Minister’s replies not only to my opening general comments, I also heard the Minister reply to many other colleagues here today. I want to hone in on certain key terminology that was used by the Minister. The Minister is very good at sticking to a set of scripts, and he’s very attuned to his nomenclature wording. But he uses the term “there was a pressing value before Cabinet,” and he uses the terminology of “things were moving very fast,” and I’m going to come to those two terms again in just a minute here. But ideally, what we have before committee...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is at the root of my problem here today. As I said earlier, the sharing of information within a consensus government is critical, yet it appears that we have a division of this government which apparently acts above such law of the land when it comes to transparency and accountability to its people.

Will the Minister commit to the sharing, with committee, and hopefully with the public someday, the current findings and past audit findings within the context of corporate risk management? Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, we did get some information here, but I do have another question to gather a little bit more statistics.

Another important measure of success of the implementation of audit recommendations by management is addressing these so-called outstanding high risks.

Can the Minister indicate to the House how many of these recommendations were reported in the 2013-2014 fiscal year and what percentage of these recommendations were actually implemented? Thank you.

Thank you, Deputy Minister Neudorf. Committee, I would like to draw your attention to the gallery today. We have with us joining our proceedings this afternoon, Ms. Gloria Ann Campbell from Tulita, who is with the Chief Albert Wright School looking after our Pages today.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to introduce to you and through you, as we’ve heard today, we have a number of recipients for the cultural and heritage awards. Thank you for sharing your incredible stories. We heard a lot of that today in the House. Of course, Mayor Furlong, it’s always a pleasure to have you with us here. Again, congratulations on your long journey as a cancer survivor.

I have two other people here who I’d like to recognize, one who I worked with for a number of years, Ms. Nicole Garbutt. It was a pleasure working with you for many years in the business sector. Many times in...

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.

So again we are getting more clarity in terms of where we are with our short-term borrowing, that during the course of daily operations of the government, cash in, cash out, paying our bills, all that kind of stuff, it sounds like we have very little wiggle room on our short-term borrowing, that we are really financing this government on cash surpluses between now and March 31st, which doesn’t leave us a lot of opportunity to deal with any type of mitigating circumstances should they arise.

Does the government foresee, outside of the normal appropriation program that we have before the House...

So again, I’m trying to do the math. I’m assuming these appropriations are coming out of short-term cash, and what we’ve heard from the deputy minister, when I asked a question with respect to the $20 million to mitigate the low water rate rider, with that appropriation the equal sign on our bank account, the drawdown was $225 million. Again, I do ask… Maybe I should rephrase my question and it might help when we get to the next page here. If we were to look at all the appropriations that we have before us, both in operations and I know we are going to be doing infrastructure after that, can...

Well, there was a question there that did not get answered. I asked about the short-term borrowing line. I’ll leave it to the Minister if he wants to elaborate more, because I think that’s an important question. If, again, the Minister doesn’t want to answer that question, just maybe he can indicate that.

We are borrowing that money from short-term borrowing and it would be nice to know where we’re sitting on our short-term borrowing line of credit. But I think conventional wisdom would prevail, and I think the public is smart enough to understand that we can talk in soliloquies about the...

If we’re hearing correctly, it was August 25th, which is almost one month and a day when the press release and also the press conference was being held by the Cabinet. As I said, I’m trying to figure out what was so pressing, the fact that it was one month that transpired between that information and the decision that everyone heard on the 26th of September. I guess the question, Mr. Chair, was there an imminent deadline that the PUB needed to have an answer by?