Daryl Dolynny

Mr. Chair, I guess I just want to get clarification. Will the full amount of $26.5 million be in our corporate coffers or our government coffers from the Government of Canada by April 1, 2014?

I do appreciate the forensic reply here. Again, my question is not to second guess where the money is being spent. I think that is a given. I think the facts are there. We heard from the deputy minister that we received just over $4 million of monies to offset, and again, as the note said here, that net effect on government operations will be nil. My concern is that we are now adding money on our side of the fence to top this up.

When do we anticipate to receive the full value of this $26.5 million? Will it be in our hands prior to the April 1, 2014, so-called launch date? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the Minister of Transportation‘s clarification. I do know that the Merv Hardie is a class 2 icebreaker. What is the classification of the Louis Cardinal? Thank you.

I appreciate the deputy minister’s clarification on the subject. My question more has to do with the realities that supplementary appropriations should be minimal, at best. These are gap-fill measures to keep us by or to consider maybe some unforeseen spending in any one department.

Given the fact that we’ve seen devolution on the forefront – it’s been through our windshield now for quite a while – I was, again, quite shocked to see the largeness of that number, given the fact that almost half of this supplementary appropriation has to do with that one line entry.

My question is: Did we not see...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The operation of any ferry service usually follows a fairly preordained path. I mean, water freezes, water thaws, there is a week or two here and there, the trips are pretty much consistent. Can you give an explanation of why we are expecting to see that almost $1.4 million more?

Mr. Speaker, I too rise again today here and to support this motion. I would like to thank the mover of the motion, Ms. Bisaro, and the seconder, Mr. Bouchard. We spoke passionately here in this House about cyberbullying for our time here. I know there have been other Members of the Legislative Assembly of years past who have done the same.

The message is quite clear: we have to go beyond what is in print. We have to go beyond what we do in promotion. We have to go and do everything possible as legislators. This motion does speak to this. This motion asks us to put some meat on the bone when it...

I do appreciate the deputy minister’s response. I mean, I’m not going to deny creating a centre of excellence, as was mentioned here today. That should be the goal of any organization, whether it’s in government or in business. But it has to be said that if you’re going to do this, you need to quantify or at least predict what your savings are going to be and we didn’t hear that today. We heard it’s only $165,000, we’re going to be doing a whole bunch of changes, we’re going to have all these topnotch people come down and do the buying for the government, and trust us.

I would expect that in...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to return to item 15 on the Order Paper, notices of motion.

---Unanimous consent granted

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Aumond is a wise man to agree with the Minister. I am still trying to wrap my head around this. Are we seeing savings in the benefits of the employees or are we seeing benefits in that we are more centralized in our procurement? At the end of the day, we are seeing a monumental shift in the procurement shared services of the organization and we are seeing a whole shift in this financial shared services model kind of overlapping on the same framework. What is the savings predicted to be under this procurement shared services model? With us spending all this extra...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, rise here today to support the motion brought forward by the honourable Mr. Yakeleya, and the seconder, Mr. Hawkins. I do appreciate all the work that’s gone into providing the information here today.

It goes without saying, too, there are a lot of champions behind the scenes, not only in this government but governments across the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, as well as the Yukon, and none more other than my fellow Twitter follower – and I follow him, as well – the honourable Mr. Ron Elliott in Nunavut. He’s been a strong champion of that in the Nunavut...