Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Madam Chair. I think Ms. Bisaro summed it up quite well. Again, there is a fiduciary obligation on behalf of all of our stakeholders to report their financial statements to public accounts and to this government, and as Ms. Bisaro mentioned, the Housing Corporation… Actually, there were four that did not meet the criteria, and I wanted to make sure that that was clear. We had Aurora College that required an extension. We also had NWT Business Development Investment Corporation that also needed an extension date, and we had Northwest Territories Hydro Corporation who also required an...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to thank Mr. Yakeleya for bringing this motion forward. First of all, I want to deal with the elephant in this room and that is why is a big city MLA concerned about a small community issue. This is important to me and it’s simple. This motion is an issue of equality, it’s an issue of accountability and it’s also an issue of class management. I will try to address these three ideologies in support of Mr. Yakeleya’s motion.

First of all, equality. Why are we allowing certain communities to be considered a tier 2 or second class to what is considered norm in...

Thank you, committee. Page 8, Industry, Tourism and Investment, capital investment expenditures, minerals and petroleum resources, not previously authorized, $453,000.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. For that we will go to Mr. Aumond.

Total department, not previously authorized, $1.486 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you, committee. Page 8, Justice, operations expenditures, policing services, not previously authorized, $1.307 million.

Thank you, committee. Committee, clauses 1 to 5.

---Clauses 1 through 5 inclusive approved

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I know the Minister has mentioned the issue of statistically unviable information from the Northwest Territories, but we clearly know, if we want, we can provide these statistics. We do have the means. We have a stats bureau that can do all this stuff for us.

Can the Minister indicate what safeguards or policies has the Department of Finance formalized to mitigate these yearly variances that we’re seeing in tobacco tax collection in our territory? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.