Glen Abernethy

To the Minister’s point, in the GNWT we already have collective agreements and rules and regulations that would obviously support reservists from the GNWT participation. That doesn’t help all employees and reservists in the Northwest Territories. The Minister is right that our numbers are low; 26 doesn’t seem very high at this point, but the reservists want to get to a contingent of over 100 people here in the next couple of years. Now’s the time. They’ve done a bunch of the work already. I’m happy to share with the Minister some comments that were brought to me from constituents and concerned...

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Premier Roland.

Page 2-30, Executive, activity summary, Cabinet support, grants and contributions, total grants and contributions, $823,000.

Consideration of detail begins on page 4-7, but it’s a summary page. So we’ll defer this until we’ve actually considered detail. So let’s turn to page 4-8. Committee agreed?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Minister Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to recognize a constituent, Mr. Mark Bogan. I’d also like to thank all of the Pages, especially Ben Goit, who is a resident of the Great Slave riding, for all of their hard work and dedication to us over the last couple of weeks. We really appreciate all they do.

Moving along to page 4-13, Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, information item, corporate management, active positions.

To the borrowing limit, the Minister indicated that we’ve made lots of suggestions to the federal government with respect to our thoughts on the borrowing limit. I’d be happy to hear what some of those suggestions were. With respect to the Shared Services Centre, I’ve been reading the Bear Facts so I knew those were going on, but I know there are some people out there who are confused or they’re not as comfortable, and if there’s anything we can do to give those staff some more assurances of where we are, it wouldn’t go amiss. Anything we can do to help ease some of the anxiety that’s out...

Page 2-30, Executive, activity summary, Cabinet support, grants and contributions, grants, total grants, $219,000.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. That sounds like a little bit of a hypothetical question, but I’ll go to the Premier for his thoughts on the question.