Frederick Blake Jr.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. You know, as we are funding this program here, why can’t we, as a government, help the communities with the liability issues? You know it is a very important resource for the communities and I think we need to make sure that they have all that they need to fulfill this. Thank you.

Brings us back to page 137. Finance, bureau of statistics, operations expenditure summary, activity total, $1,002,000. We will also defer this and move on to page 142. Active positions, information item. Any questions? I see none. Back to page 141. Bureau of Statistics, operations expenditure summary, total activity, $1,002,000. Are we agreed?

Thank you. That brings us to page 154, management board secretariat, operations expenditure summary, activity total, $9,726,000. We’ll defer this and move to page 155, management board secretariat, active positions, information item. Any questions? Agreed?

Thank you, Mr. O’Reilly. Mr. Kalgutkar.

Thank you, Mr. Simpson. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Kalgutkar. Any further questions? Mr. O’Reilly.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Motion is on the floor and has been distributed. Motion is in order and is non-debatable. Question has been called. All those in favour. All those opposed. Motion is carried.

---Carried

We will now continue on page 145. Deputy minister’s office, grants, contributions and transfers. Are there any questions? Are we agreed?

Thank you, Mr. Thompson. I’ll take that as a comment. Next we have Mr. McNeely.

Agreed. Thank you, committee. We will now return to the second blue tab in the tabled document titled, “Borrowing Plan for the Government Reporting Entity and Established Borrowing Limits for the Government of the Northwest Territories.” Established limits per 2016-2017 Appropriation Act, $610,340,000. Agreed? Any questions, comments?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, it would be nice to increase these funds. I see it actually went down from $400,000 to $185,000. You know it’s a shame because, like I said, we need more funding because, you know, a lot of the highways we have many accidents and we need to help support the communities to be first on the scene and take care of our residents. Thank you.