Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Madam Chair. I’m going to start off probably with more of a clarification. This has to do with the NWT or NT geoscience offices. There was a note I left to myself last time we did it. I missed it last year and I made a promise not to miss it this year.

The funding to the geosciences office was included in the budget of 2011-2012 and it wasn’t included last year. The last known number that we had to reference this by was about $3 million.

Can the Minister indicate, within the minerals and petroleum resources budget here, where does the geoscience office funding fall under and what is...

Thank you. I do appreciate the Minister’s recant of all the initiatives I believe the government is working on here and I applaud their actions.

Can the Minister elaborate as to what other initiatives that we’re now doing currently as a result of this recent tragedy? Is there anything else that the department could consider doing in promotion and prevention of head and brain sports injuries on our NWT roadways? Thank you.

Just so we’re perfectly clear, I don’t think the Member here is asking for HR-related performance measures in general. I think I’m looking for overall performance measures as a means of department activity under the guise of corporate management. Can we get, maybe, some idea that if we can work towards looking at the transparency of some of those larger picture items for the performance of management so that we know, as Regular Members, are all the initiatives that were put forth to corporate management given the fact this is a fairly detailed department, that we too as Members can see and...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. When a life is lost and a community must grieve, it begs the question of why does this have to happen.

The community of Yellowknife last summer lost a vibrant young man to a head injury while he was longboarding. Consequently, this tragedy has spurred a great debate on the personal responsibility of helmet use in road sports, the need for further education but, more importantly, the urging for legislative intervention.

Not that many years ago, our former Premier Stephen Kakfwi was quoted as saying, “We have to step up to the line and account for our inaction.” He was...

Thank you, Madam Chair. What we’re seeing in a lot of departments, especially in the corporate management sector, I like to refer to as performance measures. I assume these would be the same performance measures that could be possibly governed and used for bonuses or performance bonuses. Does the Department of ITI have any specific performance measures that it does use for its corporate management structure?

Much clearer, Madam Chair. The point I have under my assumption, there was only one proponent who had access to the Opportunities Fund during the life of this fund and the only way that I can see that that money was derived into this fund, in terms of earnings or revenue, was by means of interest. How can just one year have interest-bearing revenue when this loan was over a number of years? Would this not be reported as multi-year, very similar amounts of interest or straight line interest calculations on the amount borrowed or lent to that one proponent? If I can get clarification why we only...

So just a point of clarification, this $1.040 million here, would this not be considered interest charged to the proponent, let’s say, who had access to these opportunity funds? Thank you.

I would assume that is a levy, but is it for packaging? Is it for marketing? Can we get a bit more of an explanation of why there is that levy? Thank you.

Madam Chair, I thank Ms. Magrum for that. Can we get an indication as to when the anniversary date of that amortization will be falling off the books? Thank you.

It’s encouraging to hear that we’re, indeed, keeping a vigilant eye on it. I think there are a number of us who are still a bit concerned that we do have some people within that old Retailers Club that are potentially questionable practices. I’ll leave it at that here.

The secondary industry of diamonds is one, and it’s really important to myself not just because it makes up a large part of the Range Lake riding but also for Yellowknife and the Northwest Territories. It’s an opportunity for us to have a rebirth in the industry. Not many times in the course of history one is able to get back...