Daryl Dolynny

Thank you. Page 8-34, Health and Social Services, information item, lease commitments (infrastructure). Any questions?

Contributions, total grants and contributions, $1.451 million.

Thank you, committee. I’ll get committee to turn back to page 2-7, Executive, department summary, operations expenditure summary, $22.862 million.

Thank you, committee. I would like to thank Mr. Robertson and Ms. Eggenhofer and the Minister for coming today. If I can get the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses out of the House. Thank you.

Welcome back, committee. We are on Department of Finance. We will move over to the Minister of Finance. Mr. Miltenberger, do you have any opening comments?

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.