Caroline Wawzonek

Thank you, Madam Chair. I acknowledge the Member's comments, and, certainly, to the extent that there needs to be a better review, we certainly share that. It doesn't eliminate the fact that, unfair, unfortunately, we are at a situation now that the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, MACA, does not have this money available to it within its budget, short of the current supplementary bill that is for consideration at present.

The Department of Finance is going to be working with MACA to the extent possible to help ensure that mitigation measures or that better measures are in place to...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The Member indicated that the frustration is on the one side of the Assembly. I suspect it is on all sides of the Assembly. I certainly share the frustrations sitting here, as well. What I would like to say on behalf of the Department of Finance is that we intend to start now as we mean to go on and to be fiscally responsible but to, as I have said, use this as an opportunity to do better. That is where, we mentioned earlier in my very brief introductory comment, that, by doing some four-year plans, year-over-year plans, it is our hope that each department is in a...

[Microphone turned off] turned out to in fact have somebody find it. I am delaying somewhat in trying to look quickly, but I don't remember [microphone turned off] in one of the charts provided at Tab 1 that we provided to the committee yesterday. I don't know if Members have this with them or not.

As mentioned, this is Mr. Sandy Kalgutkar, deputy minister of Finance, and Mr. Jamie Koe, whose title has just changed, deputy secretary (Board of Management.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I will shortly just turn it over to Mr. Kalgutkar. My ability to speak to infrastructure is quite limited. Perhaps, in the interests of time, I will just go straight to Mr. Kalgutkar.

Yes, Madam Chair.

Thank you again, Madam Chair. I am here to present the Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures and Borrowing Authorization) No. 3, 2019-2020. The supplementary estimates document consists of two items, as follows:

$4.5 million for the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs for increased grant-in-lieu of property tax payments to municipal taxation authorities under the Grants-in-Lieu of Property Taxes Policy. This increase is the result of increases to the assessment values for the City of Yellowknife. A significant portion of the increase is due to the new Stanton Territorial...

Thank you, Madam Chair. There have been no discussions of any kind of freeze at this time. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I do think the question is clear. It is the percentage total that the Stanton Territorial Hospital is in the entirety of all grants-in-lieu paid by MACA to the City of Yellowknife. The Member is nodding his head, Madam Chair, so I am going to continue.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do actually have a note that says "slow" right on my desk, but I do apologize to the translators.

Mr. Speaker, I can see the A New Day programming is predominantly focused currently here in Yellowknife. For what it is worth to the Member, one of the newest places where that program is being offered is at the North Slave Correctional facility, and it does therefore target individuals who come from across communities all across the Northwest Territories. That said, obviously, it is quite different from being offered within the communities themselves.

I can say also that...