Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a couple of questions here. I wanted to follow up on some of the questions that were asked previously. First of all, with regard to the questions asked by Mr. Dolynny, by yourself, Mr. Chair, with regard to the electronic medical records, I appreciate the host of numbers that we got from the Minister. It was a little hard to follow. I wouldn’t mind asking the Minister to provide us with that on paper at a later time so it would be a little easier to follow. I wasn’t totally clear, when I was listening to the answer, how long this project is. I gather it is a multi...

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. I didn’t really hear a question there. I’ll go to the Minister for comment if he wishes.

Pages 6.4, 6.5.

Thank you, Mr. Blake. Committee, nobody else on the list. Are we agreed we are concluded Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, regional operations, infrastructure investment summary, total infrastructure investment summary, $28.002 million?

Thank you, Mr. Blake. I didn’t really hear a question there, but I’ll go to the Minister for comments.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. I didn’t really hear a question there, but I’ll go to Minister McLeod, if he wishes to comment.

I just wondered if we were going to have witnesses to answer our questions, if we have them.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I do have a number of comments I want to make with regard to the budget. They’re in no particular order. At the outset I want to say that I do support the fiscal policy that we are currently following. I do agree with the government that we have to kind of keep things down to a dull roar.

With that said, there is a real concern on the part of myself and many other Members that we are leaving ourselves open to increasing our deferred maintenance to increasing our infrastructure deficit. It’s entirely possible that we will be struggling if we don’t increase our capital...

I appreciate the Minister’s response. He says that it is a federal responsibility. A question from my constituent was pretty much relative to devolution and our current situation and the situation following devolution. My question to the Minister would be: If it is basically a federal responsibility, once devolution occurs will the federal government be able to come back to us and tell us as a territorial government that we will have responsibility for cleanup there?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 64-17(3), Northwest Territories Capital Estimates 2013-2014, and would like to report progress. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you.