Daryl Dolynny

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. Again, part two of my question was exactly that. Is this information or can this information be made available to the general public to see some of the baseline numbers that the Housing Corporation or even our government are using when we’re talking base rates? We know there are lots of rider rates out there. The power rate system is very complicated, even though I know past Assemblies have tried to make this more streamlined and I give them credit for doing so, but it is still very confusing. The question is: Can this information be made public or available so...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The beautiful thing about being a Regular Member is that there are times we’ll have differing points of view and sometimes I have that with the Member for Weledeh. In this case I agree with him 100 percent. I just want to make sure that’s on the record.

Taking that one step further with respect to this amount of money and looking at the breakdown that we see here, the breakdown I want to make reference to is just the electricity component itself. We’re seeing a variance percent here of about 15 percent in terms of a supplemental, which is quite a bit higher than the rest...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Going back to what had been posted in previous Assemblies in terms of what’s been tabled in terms of supplementary in that area, that number keeps recurring time and time again in the tune of a little over a half a million dollars year in and year out for supplemental. Can the Minister, again, we talk about forced growth and predicting dental needs. I mean, there’s a certain pattern. If we’re not growing our employee base by that much and we know that there’s a delicate balance between full-time and part-time workers, aren’t we able to make better predictions and then...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to pick up on where some of the comments from my previous colleagues were touching base on. I have to concur that, and I’m sure the Minister and his team and the Ministers on the floor are aware that some of us back here as Regular Members are business owners or have been business owners for many years. Although this is probably my first supplemental appropriation in terms of an ask, I don’t think we’re a stranger or I’m a stranger in terms of the markings of what I see here as something very unique. It’s something you don’t see in business, the type of...

Mr. Speaker, thank you to the Minister for giving us a broad overview but it sounds like there is some work that wants to be done but is not being done. Until such time as we need to raise awareness of bullying in school in our system, can the Minister describe, because we are still working on such actions at this point, what exactly are the legal recourses for the school administration to deal with bullying as it stands today? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Most recently the Government of Quebec has announced new measures to counter cyber-bullying and bullying in schools, and I have to commend that government and other governments across Canada who have gone down that path.

This made me reflect that not that many weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending a town hall meeting with the YK1 trustees and parents. One of the topics discussed that night was on bullying and I was concerned that although the schools are doing their part to curb this type of behaviour, we as legislators are sitting on the sidelines with our mouths...

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Just to let the Members know here, we are in health services programs for the $4.79 million. We’re just in that category, so I’ll turn the response over to Minister Beaulieu.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I’m just going to pick up a little bit where our Member for Sahtu was talking about the blood products from Canadian Blood Services and the projected shortfall. I know there’s confidentiality issues here that I want to make sure that we maintain as a high priority here in the questions and answers. Is there some predictability in these numbers moving forward? Or maybe if the Minister could maybe shed a little light on it. Because of the nature of the dollar amount, is there any predictability that we can use in terms of our planned budgeting versus having to go to...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I’m not going to question the math on the base rate but again this number hasn’t been negotiated previous to coming down to the House today. I would have appreciated having that in previous discussion on this, if possible. That said, have these numbers for base rates been published that are accessible for Members and the general public?

No further questions. Thank you.