Daryl Dolynny

If I can get the Minister and the department’s commitment to track down what the, say, rolling average of AANDC’s budget and Lands was for the last three years, and if they can supply that to committee. Again, I’m trying to use this as a baseline as we emerge and try to find a happy medium as to what this budget is for Lands and how we’re moving forward factoring in potential forced growth for next year. But it’s important that we, as Members, have a good understanding of what baseline means. My only baseline is what AANDC was using running this department for years and decades, so would the...

It sounds like the Minister is becoming more aware of sugar and I applaud his knowledge on it.

Can the Minister inform the House if his department collects statistics on obesity in the Northwest Territories and, more specifically, the economic and regional variances? If so, is this information publicly available? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 22-17(5), Northwest Territories Main Estimates 2014-2015, and would like to report progress with one motion being adopted. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. I guess what I’m trying to do is establish what I call a baseline. So if our federal counterparts were doing very similar work in terms of providing, you know, the terms of reference and the mandate directorate of lands today, we keep hearing about devolution as being taking over control of activities and that we will evolve later. We keep hearing this from the Premier. I have to be honest, with all of the changes in devolution, I have to say that this is the one area that drew my most attention of concern that we were devolving and evolving on the same day. We’re adding roughly...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. A couple of weeks ago, I spoke about the alarming statistics in our daily intake of sugar and some of the national guidelines that will be forthcoming from our National Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Last week I wanted to take this journey a bit further and I posed some specifics around obesity in our territory. This week I’d like to ask some questions to the Minister of Health and Social Services on the subject.

As I said, a couple of weeks ago I asked a question to the Minister of what he was doing specifically in dealing with our daily consumption of sugar in...

Does committee agree that consideration of the Department of Lands is completed?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. If we can get maybe a little bit of information here because it’s a new department. Understanding the number of active positions that are required to run this department, can the Minister indicate how many positions that AANDC or our federal counterparts use to complete the very same workload that we’re embarking on? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Last November when the tabled report on Education Renewal and Innovation Framework was originally discussed, the most alarming statistic for me was our truancy rates in the Northwest Territories. This statistical failure, coupled with our students’ low test scores and literacy rates were echoed by many in this room.

The truancy statistic that I couldn’t shake was that by Grade 4 the average NWT student has already missed half a year of school, or two full years by Grade 10. I mean, how do you begin to tackle the biggest elephant in this territory?

My search for answers...

And 14-27, information item, work performed on behalf of others. Any questions?

Would we consider this more like a flow-through amount and it’s just indexed?