Julian Morse

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm going to ask a high-level question first because it may explain all of the cuts. But I notice there's about a $10 million reduction here; can the Minister explain that. And does that $10 million reduction explain everything that's being cut there similar to some of the items I asked about in the previous item?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And so I mean fundamentally speaking, do we have a plan related to this mandate item? Like, do we have -- how do I say this. I mean, are we measuring our northern workforce, determining what is preventing it from growing, and implementing a targeted plan to grow it? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for all those answers, explaining those various adjustments in there.

The next question is can the Minister explain what progress has been made in investigating the feasibility of adding an Office of the Practitioner Experience?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I assume this is as good a place as any to be asking business plan related questions; can I confirm that?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Okay, so to be clear, no reduction in service there.

Similarly, population and public health services, there's a $1.2 million cut. Is there a service cut associated with that? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Can the Minister answer the question maybe a little bit more directly, just have we actually saved money? Has the program achieved what it was seeking out to do? I mean, the department gave MLAs a bunch of different reasons why this change was needed. I'm just curious if we've actually achieved a change, or if we're spending the same amount of money, we seem to be covering a few new people but less overall. I'm having a hard time understanding kind of what benefits have come from the change. Thank you.

I really appreciate that. And similarly, the community, culture and innovation is cut almost perfectly in half. Can they just give a quick description of what's behind that.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Maybe the Minister could help enlighten me as to how we come up with money for something that is unfunded and if we are coming up with that money, why on earth are we not simply just putting it in the budget? Thank you.

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. So I'm a little bit confused if that's the case. We have 366 new clients. I'd have to do some very quick math to figure out what 1200 minus 794 is, but it soundings like there's been a significant decrease in registration for the program. So can the Minister explain what's going on with the numbers there. Is there another program that people have fallen into; can the Minister just help us understand.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So just to be clear, were staff listing the organizations that are losing money this year? Is that -- she kind of characterized it as those are the organizations we fund; I was asking who is losing money.