David Krutko

Welcome, witness. As we agreed, we will begin with the Department of Finance. Please turn to page 3-2.We will defer that activity summary and move to page 3-4, Finance, activity summary, office of the comptroller general, infrastructure investment summary, total infrastructure investment summary, zilch.

Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 1-16(4), NWT Capital Estimates 2010-2011, and would like to report progress and that consideration of Tabled Document 1-16(4) is concluded and that the House concur in those estimates and that an appropriation bill to be based thereon be introduced without delay. Mr. Speaker, I move the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Does committee agree that he brings in his witnesses?

The motion is in order. To the motion.

Okay. With that, we’ll take a short break and begin with the Department of Finance.

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Agreed. Does committee agree that consideration of Tabled Document 1-16(4) is concluded?

I call Committee of the Whole to order. We have several items in Committee of the Whole. We have Tabled Document 1-16(4), NWT Capital Estimates 2010-2011; Tabled Document 18-16(4), Supplementary Appropriation No. 2 (Operations Expenditures), 2009-2010; Tabled Document 19-16(4), Supplementary Appropriation No. 3 (Infrastructure Expenditures), 2009-2010; Committee Report 1-16(4), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on the Review of the Information and Privacy Commissioner’s 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 Annual Reports; and Committee Report 2-16(4), Standing Committee on Government...

If we can turn back to page 1-2, Legislative Assembly, department summary, infrastructure investment summary, total infrastructure investment summary, $1.4 million.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, if the Minister can take it onto himself to call the president of the Gwich’in Tribal Council, Mr. Richard Nerysoo, and give him an update on where these things are at, because I met with Richard Nerysoo prior to coming back down to the House and he is the one that brought this issue to my attention and that they are being totally excluded from this process. Yet, Mr. Speaker, this government has a right to consult with First Nations under court cases in Canada and I would just like to impose on the Minister to take it onto himself to make that phone call to...

With that, I would like to thank the Minister and thank the witness. Sergeant-at-Arms, escort the witness out.

We’ll now proceed to consideration of the capital estimates for the Legislative Assembly. Does the committee have any questions with regard to the capital estimates for the Legislative Assembly? If so, we can invite Mr. Speaker into Committee of the Whole to join us. If not, does committee agree consideration of the Legislative Assembly capital estimates is concluded?