Robert Bouchard

Thank you. I will ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort our guests in today.

Minister Miltenberger, please introduce your witnesses today.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Jackson Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Deputy Minister Aumond.

Thank you, Deputy Minister. Next on my list I have Mr. Bromley.

Total department, previously not authorized, $23,000. Agreed?

Next I have Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess I just have some concerns and I think most of them have to do with the accelerated activity in the Tuk to Inuvik highway. Oh, this is in operations. Sorry. I thought we were on capital. Sorry. Go ahead.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Next week we will be having the Energy Charrette. The charrette is meant to look at the cost of power and costs of energy in the Northwest Territories, probably one of the biggest costs that most of our constituents currently have. The government is touting this as the opportunity for us to look at all the solutions for the cost of living, but I’m very concerned.

We had an Energy Charrette a couple of years ago, with limited successes. We talked about a power supply system that would link all our grids together, which we know is now ineffective cost-wise, as well as the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 115-17(5), Northwest Territories Capital Estimates 2015-2016; and Tabled Document 155-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2014-2015, and would like to report progress. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.