Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to thank my colleagues and Cabinet for adding their remarks for debate.

Mr. Speaker, I understand that it may be of some use to you in considering this matter if I advise the House of other precedents that may apply to the situation at hand, especially with respect to government announcements or advertising initiatives which by being announced prematurely cause prejudice of future proceedings of the House and diminish the role of the Legislative Assembly in the eyes of its Members and the public we all serve.

For example, on October 10, 1989, Speaker John Fraser...

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Mr. Neudorf, Mr. Guy, Mr. Kalgutkar, welcome back to the House.

Committee, it is my pleasure to open up the floor now to general comments on Tabled Document 281-17(5), Capital Estimates, 2016-2017. With that, I’m calling general comments. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Minister. Does committee agree?

Before we bring witnesses in, committee, we’re going to actually ask the Minister if he has opening comments. Minister Miltenberger.

I will ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to escort our witnesses out of the Chamber. I will now rise and report progress. Thank you, committee.

Good afternoon, committee. I’d like to call Committee of the Whole back to order. Committee, we have agreed to consider Tabled Document 281-17(5), Capital Estimates, 2016-2017. We’ve also agreed to begin with general comments. Does the Minister of Finance wish to bring witnesses into the House? Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. We’ll go to Minister Miltenberger for a reply.

Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to return to item 14 on the order sheet, tabling of documents. Thank you.

---Unanimous consent granted

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. I’ll allow Minister Miltenberger a reply.

Again, it’s painfully clear that you’ve had meetings with some of our northern colleagues. There have been some reports not knowing whether or not it had a full impact to the NWT economy, but the Premier did formally write to all federal election leaders and although the letter did not cite northern deduction per se, only one federal leader replied specific to this deduction.

Can the Premier formally indicate, aside from this single letter writing campaign that we have heard during this federal election, what formal collaborative lobbying efforts are in place to secure an increase to northern...