Robert Bouchard

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. I’ll go to Deputy Minister Campbell.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I understand the Premier is giving me all the history and all the information that’s there.

My question is: Is there a one-page document advertising that we can share with the general public that there will be jobs in Fort Res, Tsiigehtchic in the third, fourth year? Is there a document out there? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Page 139, Ministers’ offices, operations expenditure summary, $3.471 million.

Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Next I have Mr. Nadli.

I understand a lot of the information that’s there that the Premier just provided me, but there is no plan out there. There’s no long-term plan that the Cabinet has been sharing. This is information that Cabinet has, Cabinet’s keeping close to their chest. We’re moving these positions, we’ll be moving these positions eventually here, but we don’t know all those plans. The public doesn’t know those plans.

Is there a plan that the government will be presenting to the public?

Page 136, directorate, grants, contributions and transfers, total grants, $150,000.

Minister of Executive, Premier McLeod.

Thank you, Deputy Minister Campbell. Mr. Blake.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to talk about decentralization. I’ve spoken of this many times in the House. I know Hay River has had some opportunities to get some of this decentralization, but I’m still a little bit disturbed in the fact that we don’t have a general plan for decentralization. We don’t have a plan of how many jobs are going to get out to the smaller communities, how we’re going to do that.

When we started in this Assembly, it was a priority. We were looking at all the issues that are there, whether it’s housing or office space, or how do we do that staffing. We’ve heard...