Daryl Dolynny

Page 2-9, Executive, information item, revenue summary.

Thank you, Premier McLeod. Page 2-21, Executive, activity summary, executive operations, operations expenditure summary, $6.756 million. Does committee agree?

Seeing none, page 4-25, Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, activity summary, intergovernmental relations, operations expenditure summary, $1.710 million.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yesterday the House was once again witness to another announcement of more money being required by the Department of Transportation and its Minister for the sinkhole we all know as the Deh Cho Bridge.

Many MLAs and many more residents of the NWT are extremely perplexed on how this department and its Ministers cannot seem to complete large-scale projects on time and on budget.

Moreover, it seems this time the department had to negotiate an agreement-in-principle within an already negotiated contract price in order to get the work done. I’m not sure if many people picked up...

I do appreciate the Minister bringing awareness to the situation. My question would then follow that the results of these findings, would this be considered the first phase of a number of different types of emergency shelters that could be provided to other areas of concern? I know I have the Member here from the Sahtu who has issues in the Norman Wells area. I know there are issues up in the Inuvik area. I know there are issues in Hay River. Will the Minister look at committing a so-called protocol or set a policy for day shelter use in terms of what programs can be developed? Is this the...

Thank you, committee. Does committee agree that we have concluded final consideration for the Department of Health and Social Services?

Page 2-18, Executive, activity summary, Ministers’ offices, grants and contributions, grants, total grants, zero dollars.

Does committee agree?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Moving on with general comments, I have Mr. Bromley.

I do appreciate the response. However, I do have to make known that the department did agree with establishing a chronic disease model and having that first draft developed in the 2011-2012 budget year, and that there was going to be a primary community care draft and response back. It appears that the department made promises to the Auditor General back then and is being very slow on delivery.

Again, I appreciate what I’m hearing, but my question would be, if I picked another disease state, cardiovascular, or if I picked a myriad of cancer issues, would the department be in a similar position...