Robert Bouchard

Agreed. Page 4-13, corporate management, operations expenditures, $4.142 million. Mr. Menicoche.

Activity summary, implementation, operations expenditures, $706,000. Agreed to that, too?

Thank you, Mr. Goldney. Mr. Bromley.

I guess I’m struggling with that issue, especially on a day like today when I made a Member’s statement on decentralization and the plan that we have going forward. I guess there are quite a few jobs going out into the regions through devolution, and to add seven more to Yellowknife, I understand some of them were through devolution but a couple were actually through an option that we had. I guess this is a priority of the Assembly to do decentralization and I’d like us to consider that, I guess.

The other area of concern that I have, and it’s more of a question, I think, we talked about the...

Mr. Premier.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Mr. Premier.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I appreciate that there is a plan. My concern is that we’re already committing to building 30 houses and we haven’t completed the plan yet. Shouldn’t we have that current plan in place before we implement those houses and some of those office studies?

How do those two link? How does the government go ahead and spend millions of dollars on housing and office studies when we don’t even actually have the plan in place? How does the Premier explain that?

Thank you, Mr. Goldney. Activity summary, negotiations, operations expenditure summary, $2.640 million. Agreed?

Thank you. Page 4-15, corporate management, active positions. Are there any questions? Agreed?

I have difficulties believing the Premier when he talks about decentralization and phase 2 of devolution, which put more than 200 positions into Yellowknife and only 90 out to the regions, so how is that decentralization? It sounds like centralization to me.

What is the government’s plan going forward to decentralize positions and what is that plan specifically? We’re currently planning to build houses in certain communities. We must have a plan that we’re going to put specific positions into those communities. What is that plan?