Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Mr. Stewart.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. How worried should we be about our financial future as a government? Well, if you listen to our Finance Minister, he’ll try to reassure that his department restored the balance between revenues and expenditures. But did they? He’ll tell you this administration works on paying down their short-term borrowing debt and focuses on building their cash reserves. But do they? All I can recall is that our short-term borrowing limit was increased by this administration from $175 million to $275 million less than two years ago and we were told last week they want another $25...

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. General comments. Since I don’t see any more general comments, does committee agree to proceed in detail?

Thank you, committee. If I can turn committee’s attention to page 57 of the expenditure capital items expense under Housing Corporation. We’re going to actually defer page 57. I’d like to go to page 58, finance and infrastructure services, information item. Any questions? Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. General comments. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. I’ll allow the Minister to reply. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Mr. Guy.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Mr. Williams, welcome to the Chamber again. Committee has indicated we are on municipal and corporate affairs. According to our protocol, we are going to forego opening comments and be going directly into general comments. Mr. Blake.

I appreciate those vacancy statistics. It’s always good to keep current and I’m sure we’ll be asking those same questions when we do the operational budget here in the spring. The only advice I can give to the Minister and the department is to, you know, we tend to always talk about our overcrowding problems in non-market communities, but I stress that even in market communities such as Yellowknife and some of the major centres, we do have overcrowding as well, so I’m hoping we don’t lose sight of some of the needs and designs of all communities moving forward. I know you do, I just want to...

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. Mr. Guy.