Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. For that we’ll go to Mr. Heide.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Ms. Allison. Continuing on with general comments on ECE, I have Mr. Bouchard.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Ms. Desjardins, Ms. Beard, welcome to the Chamber.

Committee, we agreed earlier for convention protocol that we will have no opening comments and will go directly to general comments. With that, general comments. Does committee agree to go into detail?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. For that response we’ll go to Ms. Allison.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment, who was appointed by Cabinet as regulator of the oil and gas operations in the Northwest Territories effective April 1, 2014.

At times the regulator is privy to information that would not be in the public’s best interest to disclose or debate, such as a company’s net profit projections. What mechanisms are in place to ensure that information disclosure will respect the public’s best interest and not place any corporation, agency or other organization at a significant disadvantage, and how will this...

Thank you, Mr. Moses. Minister Lafferty.

Thank you. Does committee agree?

Committee, I would like to turn your attention to page 11 in the capital estimates. We will defer that until after detail. Committee, page 12, Education, Culture and Employment, education and culture, infrastructure investments, $5.826 million. Does committee agree?

This is where the Minister and our ideology differ. I know the Minister takes pride for doing what’s right for the residents of the Northwest Territories, and he did the honour of opening the new shelter this fall. However, it is clear, with the information that we have today, we are still lacking the required funds for a successful NWT day shelter facility.

Will this Minister commit to making sure we have in place solid targets, proper timelines and the proper funding dollars needed to deal with all levels of withdrawal management programs for our shelter residents? Thank you.