Daryl Dolynny

This is a report made by bureaucrats for bureaucrats and celebrated by bureaucrats. The public, on the other hand, you know, the ones that foot the bill around here and pay taxes, have been shortchanged by this Minister once again. In fact, the only public use of this review report should be restricted to the public washroom of the forest management division. At least there it would have a physical purpose. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move that this committee recommends that to enhance transparency, the Government of the Northwest Territories improve the quality of reporting in the public accounts, including providing a detailed explanation of how the government met the requirement of its Fiscal Responsibility Policy for the year in question. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’d like to, again, just add a little bit more context to what we heard from Ms. Bisaro and talk about, with respect to this public accounts review, that there was a number of public agencies that did not meet reporting deadlines and, according to the Auditor General, they were the South Slave Divisional Education Council, the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation, Aurora College and the NWT Business Development and Investment Corporation, otherwise known as BDIC.

Now, we went through the review of each one of them as to why and the Auditor General was indicating to us...

Thank you. I have no further questions.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’d like to welcome Mr. Blake to the witness table, and colleagues.

Just some housekeeping items with respect to this act. When something like this comes into play it will definitely factor into the quantities, the dollar figures in the pension fund and make changes thereof. Has there been any actuarial performance done as to what impact this may have on our current plan?

Thank you, Mr. Moses. We’ll now go to the Minister to see if he would like to bring witnesses into the House. Minister Abernethy.

Thank you, committee. Committee Report 17-17(5) is concluded.

Committee, we’ll continue with the orders here. Committee, we agreed to consider Bill 47, An Act to Amend the Child and Family Services Act. I’ll go to the Minister responsible for the bill to introduce it. Minister Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Moses. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Thank you, committee. Committee, we have before us here still left outstanding Committee Report 17-17(5), Standing Committee on Social Programs, we have a report of the review of Bill 44, Hospital Insurance and Health and Social Services Administration Act. With that, I believe we’ll go to Mr. Moses. Mr. Moses.

Good afternoon, committee. I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. What is the wish of committee? Ms. Bisaro.