Caroline Wawzonek

Thank you, Madam Chair. I am here to present Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 20222023. These supplementary estimates propose a total increase of $24.044 million, comprised of the following items:

$27.75 million to provide funding for the Mackenzie Valley Fibre Link Project;

$205,000 to increase the total project budget for the Land Tenure Optimization System; and,

A decrease of $4.886 million to adjust infrastructure project cash flows to realign the appropriations with the anticipated project schedules.

These estimates also propose the supplementary appropriations...

Thank you, Madam Chair. So, Madam Chair, again, the total project cost isn't the total necessarily that the GNWT's paid for it. I am providing the total project cost as an estimate. But, again, I'm somewhat constrained because it wasn't a total project cost by the GNWT. It was paid for by this other entity. That's the nature of having a P3 partner design and build a project and deliver it. And they ran into some significant issues in the course of that project, which we didn't then have to have the risk for. So the claim that was made and the settlement that was reached, as in the case of many...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm sure we can do that. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, let me take that back to the department. I don't have a ready answer as to why that wouldn't be a chart that could be included. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I will give notice that on Wednesday, March 29th, 2023, I will present Bill 83, the Liquor Act, to be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the Member's quite right. This is within what is termed the contingent liabilities that are budgeted for and that are reported upon. It's a larger sum initially. It comes it's in the public accounts. It's a larger sum. It's reported as an aggregate precisely because there's often either the discussions towards resolution aren't advanced enough to know whether they should be within contingent liabilities or they're at a stage where it would not be strategically wise for the GNWT to put itself out and say well, we think a matter should settle at X dollars...

$125,000 plus $86,000, Madam Chair. And I just didn't do the math in time.

Madam Chair, I do. However, I thought we were doing the infrastructure sup and so I have the wrong ones in front of me, Madam Chair. But if you'll bear with me a moment, I will be able to read the correct ones to you. All right, no, that's still not it. All right, Madam Chair, I'm happy to present Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 20222023.

These supplementary estimates propose a total increase of $44.1 million, of which $11.9 million will be offset by revenues from the Government of Canada. These supplementary estimates propose the following expenditures:

$6.3 million...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, Mr. Speaker, I would be happy to provide a briefing, a briefing note or briefing in person with respect to, you know, monies we've had, challenges, perhaps opportunities to come, and what we might be doing to look for more money. Mr. Speaker, it's, again, certainly been my position, and I've communicated to federal ministers, that some of the funds perhaps weren't best tuned or well tuned to what the needs actually are and to where we are at in terms particularly around, again not only accessibility and availability, but affordability. That was not necessarily well...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The total amount requested of 6.792 includes funding for agency nurse contracts of 5.7 as well as providing accommodation for those nurses and also for their union dues, and it's divided up between the different departments within which they would be employed. But that is the total, 6.7.