David Krutko

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 98-16(5), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2009-2010; Tabled Document 99-16(5); Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 5, 2009-2010; Tabled Document 100-15(6), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2010-2011; Tabled Document 101-16(5), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No, 4, 2010-2011, and would like to report progress with four motions being adopted and that consideration of tabled documents 98, 99, 100 and 101 are concluded, and...

Total department, not previously authorized, $787,000.

Total department, not previously authorized, negative $15 million.

Mr. Miltenberger.

Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 4, 2010-2011, Public Works and Services, capital investment expenditures, asset management, not previously authorized, $1.078 million.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I stated in my Member’s statement, this issue is more than simply a transfer of power from one government to another. It is a transfer of responsibility to indigenous people in the Northwest Territories by this transfer and the affects it’s going to have on the indigenous population under treaty rights, land claim agreements, and Section 35 protection rights. I’d like to know if we have an aboriginal lawyer or aboriginal legal counsel to look at it from the aboriginal perspective on aboriginal rights and inherent rights. I’d like to ask again if that issue is going...

Mr. Miltenberger.

Environmental protection, not previously authorized, $259,000. Mr. Bromley.

I would like to thank the Minister and the witnesses. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses out.

We’ve concluded the items that we agreed to discuss today. What is the wish of the committee? Mrs. Groenewegen.

Minister of Finance.