Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. Bromley, your time is up. If you need some more, just let me know. Moving along with questions I have the Member for Hay River South, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Hawkins, your time is up. Let me know if you need to get back on. Moving on with questions on page 5, I have Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you. Mr. Menicoche, what is the wish of the committee?

Thank you, Mr. Neudorf. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Final comment on that, we’ll go to Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, committee. Committee, page 6, 2012-2013 Supplementary Appropriation, No. 3, (Infrastructure Expenditures). Environment and Natural Resources, capital investment expenditures, forest management, not previously authorized, $62,000. Total department, not previously authorized, $62,000. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today in celebration of International Women’s Day, as you indicated. I am very thankful and happy we have a lot of wise women here with us today in the gallery. I am also very pleased that I sit between two very wise women in politics. We should be cheering, Mr. Speaker. These women here teach this old dog many new tricks.

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I’m not here just to speak about our lovely ladies here today; I am also here to talk about a partnership. I am here to talk about the Yellowknife Community Foundation and Diavik Diamond Mines. The Yellowknife Community Foundation was...

I give notice that on Monday, March 11, 2013, I will move the following motion: Now therefore I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Hay River North, that the Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment revise its Diamond Policy Framework to reflect the needs of a successful secondary industry by:

securing the diamond certification process and enhanced marketing of the Polar Bear trademark;

strengthening conditions for northern-approved manufacturers with the goal of keeping diamonds in the North;

establishing a diamond bourse to facilitate localized sorting, evaluating and rough box...

Mr. Speaker, I don’t think the competency of our public sector or senior management is the question here. What we’re looking for, and the question, is the impartiality and the unbiased reporting structures. For example, time in motion studies is a baseline used in a lot of businesses to find efficiencies in design. The question to the Minister of HR here today is: Why are we reluctant to look at an outside source?

The program review office is no different than the police monitoring the police. That’s the question. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to let you off where the Member for Hay River North was going on here with the efficiencies in our public service sector. The Minister of Human Resources left off on the program review office as being an outside review means of the process.

Can the Minister of HR indicate by what virtue would the program review office be considered an outside source? This is manned by internal personnel. Can the Minister clarify that, please? Thank you.