David Ramsay

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to recognize a constituent, Ms. Sue Tkachuk, who is with us this afternoon. I’d also like to recognize a former co-worker, Mr. Glen Abernethy.

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Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Committee Report 6-15(6) and would like to report progress with three motions being adopted and that Committee Report 6-15(6) is concluded. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This topic of the Deh Cho Bridge has been a topic that was discussed back in May when we were here. I even brought the subject up three years ago, Mr. Speaker, with the concerns I had over the project at that time.

I want to state, first and foremost, that my opposition to this bridge being built is nothing personal, it’s nothing against the community of Fort Providence. I think the community of Fort Providence deserves to have economic development and opportunity. My big issue with this bridge project is the fact that the government has gone ahead based on five-year-old...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I’d like to recognize a former colleague of mine on Yellowknife city council, Mr. Ben McDonald. As well, we’ve got two other city councillors who are with us today in the gallery: Mr. Kevin Kennedy and Ms. Lydia Bardak.

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I would also like to welcome everyone else who is with us here in the gallery today. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to know if anybody that was responsible for making decisions that are affecting us today is still working for the government and, if they are, I really do believe, Mr. Speaker, that somebody somewhere has to be held accountable and has to be responsible for the decisions that were made with PeopleSoft. If it’s not the Minister, it’s not the Premier, it’s not this government -- they want to wash their hands of it -- who is it? Who can we say is responsible for the situation we find ourselves in today, Mr. Speaker?

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. Motion is in order. It's not debatable. All those in favour? Opposed? Motion is carried.

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I'll now rise and report progress. Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions again are for the Minister responsible for Human Resources. We look back over the past 10 years of this government and the government before it and the government before that have spent over $8 million in the area of PeopleSoft and the software there for human resources. Just last year, we spent another $450,000 on a Hackett report to go over business processes at HR. Just recently in the supp, there is another $523,000 to deal with PeopleSoft. It seems to me, Mr. Speaker, that it is a black hole of public funds that is going into a product that...

Thank you, committee. Does committee agree that consideration of Committee Report 4-15(6) is concluded?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to ask the Minister which invoices, if the contract hasn’t been completed, which invoices specifically is the government sending to Answerthink or Answerthink has sent to the government that they’re not going to pay? Which ones of those invoices is the government not going to pay and for what work that wasn’t supplied? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, committee. To the motion.