Daryl Dolynny

Thank you. That’s promising news here and I think it’s important that the public hear that as well.

So to truly appreciate what we currently have to protect our public sector, can the Minister please indicate what is the government’s experience so far with the memorandum of agreement with the UNW on whistleblowing within the GNWT? Thank you.

I appreciate Mr. Lovely and the Minister for indulging me to get this number. I think with that number it should make a bit more sense and I appreciate them sharing that information today. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We seem to be living in the age of the whistleblower, and you notice I didn’t say noisemaker, because all too often we have some of those people too. But the true whistleblowers, people who uncover fraud, mismanagement, government surveillance, you name it, are making waves worldwide. Some publish their findings on WikiLeaks, YouTube, or even use their own blogs.

So far we don’t have any Edward Snowdens in the Northwest Territories, but maybe we should consider that it could happen. Do we want to have an environment where whistleblowers in the Territories are treated...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My intention is not to belittle the question. It’s just that the fact remains that we’ve got some consistent facts or variables that I consider baseline and without knowing what this number means in relationship to the overall costs of heating and electricity for our public housing, there’s nothing to gauge whether or not $1.645 million is reasonable, given the facts we know today. So unless we’re able to baseline this number in relationship to what is considered a fair increase, that has yet to be seen and we don’t have that information today.

So again, I’m at the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just before we leave this area here, just so we get an understanding of the full-cost accounting, this $1.645 million that is considered not previously authorized, what percentage of this number is in relationship to the overall costs of heating fuel and electricity for public housing? What percentage does this represent? Thank you.

Mr. Chair, given some of the numbers that we just heard here, about 40 percent of this $100,000 allocation will be for travel, and he talked about a private function that is occurring here. I didn’t hear a dollar figure that was set aside for that function. Would the Minister like to share that number, please?

The Member for Range Lake is satisfied. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’ll reserve my question until we get to that other supp.

My second question has to do with individual dentists. Did we receive any individual dentists submit any type of notation, letter, e-mail or phone call that spoke against this amendment that we have before us today?

What was supposed to be fairly clear has now become a little bit muddy. The spirit and intent sounds like it was clearly laid out by the members of the Legislative Building Society. That they were to carry out their own bylaws to spend the overage, but then, in turn, wrote a cheque to the GNWT here, to the government here, to say now spend it in the intent that we originally designed.

Every antenna that I have goes off, going, why would they do that. I think they’re doing that because this topic became a political hot button. They are aware that some of that spending wasn’t going into the true...