Robert Bouchard

Any questions? Is committee agreed?

Thank you, Mr. Premier. Mr. Goldney.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess I’ll follow along with some of the questions that my colleagues have asked. I’d like to ask a question about the devolution positions and, I guess, the number of positions that were out in the regions and, I guess, the lack of support for HR in the regions. I mean, all the positions have been added to the headquarters. Did we not deem that Inuvik was getting a good quantity of these positions and probably going to need some assistance with some of those positions as well as multiple communities in the South Slave. Would there not have been some sort of advantage...

Information item, negotiations, active positions. Are there any questions? Ms. Bisaro.

Page 4-17, negotiations, operations expenditures, $2.640 million. Mr. Bromley.

Madam Speaker, I think the Premier has devolution and decentralization mixed up and tied into a knot.

I guess my questions would be: How does the Premier expect this Assembly to complete their goal to decentralize? We haven’t accomplished that. We haven’t gotten to that point where we actually have a plan. Is the Premier committing to that six-month plan that we’re going to see how decentralization is going to roll out into the communities in this Assembly?

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. Mr. Goldney.

Thank you, Mr. Robertson. Committee, corporate management, grants and contributions, $1.145 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Madam Speaker. In my Member’s statement I was talking about decentralization. My questions today will be for the Premier.

With the government spending millions of dollars on housing and public works preparing for decentralization, does this government have a general overall plan of how this decentralization and these positions will go out to the regions?

Thank you, Mr. Goldney. Mr. Nadli.