Daryl Dolynny

I don’t understand the direct link between firefighters and firefighting which we do not know and something that we do know. I’ll leave it at that, but I’m going to ask the department moving forward to take a look at this because, again, comparing this to firefighting, these are two different types of entities.

With that, my next question involves the contract services and the details of other expenses. We see a drop from the $5.776 million down to $3.028 million. Can we get an explanation as to that drop? Thank you.

Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Blake. General comments. Mr. Bouchard.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Mr. Warren.

Thank you. Page 4-17, Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, activity summary, negotiations, operations expenditure summary, $2.442 million.

Thank you. I do appreciate the Minister giving a very detailed approach and finally sharing some of these numbers in its gross format to show the people of the Northwest Territories what’s happening with the interest rates, what’s happening with the borrowing limit. No question, but more of an observation.

Madam Chair, I appreciate the department’s agreeing in terms of making this process as streamlined as possible.

My next question has to do with program delivery details. Although slight in nature, we do see a decrease in children and family services where they predominantly show a steady increase over a number of budgets. Can the department give us an indication why there was a slight decrease in that budget? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Page 8-33, Health and Social Services, information item.

Thank you, Premier McLeod. Page 2-13, Executive, activity summary, directorate, operations expenditure summary, $9.980 million.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Premier McLeod.