Bob Bromley

I appreciate the Minister’s comments there. I just would observe that many of the recommendations were of a systemic nature and totally in line with the prevention side the Minister had mentioned. I hope the Minister will take account for that and put some of his effort into implementation.

I guess maybe we can take this up another time because it does get complicated, but let me ask, what is our access for Canada’s disaster relief here. I see that referred to in the material in helping recover costs, these costs.

Thank you. I appreciate the Minister’s comments there. I think it’s definitely a concern. I am aware, too, of the work we’ve done to repatriate people, adults anyway, and of course we did do a thorough look at this with the Child and Family Services Act review during the 16th Assembly and made a lot of recommendations. Had they been in place, I suspect we shouldn’t have this increasing problem, at least with the children side and ultimately with the adult side as well.

Can we expect to see those recommendations put in place during ‘13-14 to start to deal with this? Thank you.

I understand we’re approving $6.8 million. Is that recognizing the value of the bonds have dropped that much?

I wasn’t writing and hearing fast enough, but did I hear $8.6 million was our base for this year and the $2.864 is on top of that? Thank you.

Sorry, Mr. Chair. I’m just not quite there yet. We are re-evaluating things and so is this a transfer. No. This is a net cost. No, it’s not a net cost either. Maybe if I could ask for a little more explanation. I know there’s a straightforward explanation. Thank you.

Thank you. Obviously, we have approved the budget for ‘13-14. So I assume Mr. Aumond just talked about the ‘14-15 year?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to begin by just getting a bookkeeping item out of the way. In the opening address by the Commissioner and again yesterday, the Premier referred to the NWT as a hydroelectric superpower rivaling Quebec or James Bay, as the case may be. That’s just not so. Quebec’s current installed production is 35 megawatts. Quebec’s potential production exceeds 120 megawatts. The NWT Hydro Strategy estimates the potential NWT hydro at 11.5 megawatts. So Quebec is more than 10 times the NWT’s and its current production is more than three times of our total potential.

Why is...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is for increased costs for medical travel. I just want to know what our total budget for medical travel is. That’s obviously a substantial increase, but perhaps not if the total medical travel budget is very large. Thank you.

Thank you. I can only conclude that the department’s response to the Auditor General that the audit tool would be in place by January 2013 has not been done. So I welcome the Minister to correct me on that, if that’s the case. That would be obviously disappointing.

In my statement I outlined the case of a local social service agency that sends one of a few staff members to accompany clients to appointments if they find out one particular income support worker has been assigned to the application. Based on their experience, they know the applicant is in for a rude and demeaning experience. So...