Daryl Dolynny

Before we rise and report progress I would like to thank our guest today, Ms. Bassi-Kellet, for joining us today. If I could get the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort our witnesses out of the Chamber.

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. Ms. Bassi-Kellett.

Thank you, Ms. Bassi-Kellett. Moving on with general comments, I have Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. With that we’ll go to Minister Beaulieu.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The purpose of my questions today are to create ladders of opportunity for our private daycare facilities and our private providers such as Montessori, and I’m hoping that the Minister can commit to when he will begin these formal discussions, these formal offerings with these private facilities so they can voice their concern. When will this start to occur? Thank you.

It’s comforting to know that the Minister is indicating that we’re going to be talking to some of these partners in due course here, but has the Minister or his staff designed any formal programming and partnering with this junior kindergarten plan with these established daycares and providers of similar programs? Thank you.

It’s clear that this policy has not been reviewed because the Minister failed to answer the question. In my Member’s statement today I had indicated 1 percent, and that is what is being quoted right from the Minister’s own words here.

Communication of government policies is a vital step in transparency, and if I pulled the information off this pamphlet, it says for a full text of the new Fiscal Responsibility Policy, go to www.gov.nt.ca/fmbs/documents/famweb. Well, when you go to this website it says, “Page cannot be found.” Can the Minister explain this? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to follow up on my Member’s statement today. When you do a search result on our GNWT website under Fiscal Responsibility Policy, you’re whisked away to a two-page pamphlet with the good looking Mr. Floyd Roland’s picture on it. Now, I like simplicity in design as it makes the complex more palatable to work with; however, with our current debt wall and with this guiding policy consistently being used to prop up our financial future, I must ask, where is the meat on this bone? My questions today are for the Minister of Finance.

It appears that the fate of our...

I guess I’ll clarify my question. I was looking for a future outlook here in terms of future budgets, but if the Minister wants to comment on this current budget, that’s fine as well. It appears that we’re funding within. These new dollars aren’t being represented in the upcoming main estimates, which it sounds like that answer has already been done, but I’m looking for the future budgets.

What is the department prepared to provide in terms of forced growth in this area in terms of potential future costs? Thank you.

Thank you. I appreciate the Minister’s comments. I guess the concern I have as a Member is that this does set a fairly unique precedent that could follow because of the uniqueness and similarity between both DND insured services as well as RCMP. So I put caution to the wind that, although I do appreciate and I understand and I concur with what we’ve seen here in the act and the amendment of the act, I’m a bit concerned that this could be a future set-up.

I guess my other question has to do with there are always costs associated with such an implementation or a change for insured services in...