Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Mr. Moses. Minister Beaulieu.

Mr. Chair, I look forward to the maybe anticipated letter to come or one that we already have and haven’t seen. I appreciate the commitment of the Minister to involve committee. If we have to meet this summer, that could be rather difficult, but I look forward to the invitation for us to provide our advice. Thank you. I am done.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, committee. Thank you, Mr. Minister. Thank you to Mr. Aumond and Mr. Kalgutkar. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses from the Chamber.

Alright, committee, we will move to Section 1, Legislative Assembly. Mr. Speaker, do you have any opening remarks?

The motion is carried.

---Carried

We will move to page 13-17. Okay, committee, we are on page 13-17, activity summary, Environment and Natural Resources, environment, operations expenditure summary, $5.936 million. Are we agreed?

Thank you and thanks to the Minister for that clarification. So I have to then ask the Minister if he has been listening to the concerns of the NWT Seniors’ Society and been listening to the concerns of Members, it should be no surprise to him that the Seniors’ Society in particular and Members have supported this.

The Seniors’ Society feels that they have not been adequately consulted. I see nothing in the statement and I heard nothing in the Minister’s answer that suggests that there’s going to be any consultation with seniors in this two-month period. So I’d like to ask the Minister what the...

Thank you, committee. Page 8-26, activity summary, Health and Social Services, supplementary health programs, grants and contributions, contributions, total contributions, $15.772 million.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a question here related to the description of programs with regard to special living requirements to assist people to live in their homes. There’s been some discussion about providing home assistance for elders. I wanted to ask a question with regard to this budget, and the need to provide assistance for independent living for older adults, not elders, but challenged adults. We have quite a number in the city of Yellowknife at the moment who are living at home with their parents or other caregiver, and who will soon need to be in not an institution, but a house...

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. We are on opening comments. Are there any further opening comments? Mr. Yakeleya.

Page 5-18, Finance, activity summary, fiscal policy, grants and contributions, grants, total grants, $22.200 million.