Bob Bromley

Thanks to the Minister. What are these? Are they in-house services or are they accessing Health and Social Services' services? We just heard, I don’t know if you had the opportunity, but many of us attended the Early Childhood Development Conference and we learned that in 50 percent or more of FASD-assumed people, actually it’s trauma from early life experiences rather than FASD. Obviously, the assessment side is very important, especially when we have people that are returning to the corrections repeatedly. What sort of resources do we have to help deal with those sorts of things and are they...

My last one. I see our federal transfer grant from Canada still remains a very large proportion of our budget, and I believe 2014 was the end of our current agreement on the formula for that. Could we just get an update? Does that happen during this fiscal year we’re discussing, and where are we in renewing and is there anything that concluded that the Minister could share with us?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just in terms of tables that we’ve got going, I think for sort of land claim settlements it’s Dehcho and Akaitcho and the rest are self-government negotiations. Do I have that right?

Thank you, and thanks for the additional details. That was my next question, was to what degree this would be a self-financing project, and I believe I heard the Minister say that the anticipation is that this would be, to some degree, a self-financing project. Maybe I can just get that confirmed. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thanks again for the Premier’s commitment there. I think it is very important, indeed, to make sure that our public, as the Premier mentioned, it’s been 40 years and the public has had very little participation. There have been some Aboriginal governments that have been at the table and so on, but I’m talking about the general public. They certainly have not had the participation that we want.

In a democracy, transparency is greatly appreciated. The ability to participate in a decision is greatly appreciated. I think even having this House participate would be great...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. A couple quick questions here. Under recoveries, something sort of startling in terms of numbers happened between the ’12-13 revised estimates for insured and third-party recoveries. I’m just wondering if I can get a little explanation of that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to add my voice to my colleague Ms. Bisaro’s. I appreciate the Premier recognizing this. I think it’s well understood that these volunteer groups, and many of them have paid members, paid staff and so on, but they play a real role in our society. It’s a balance in the government and the market and civil society.

Thank you. My second topic of interest here was the Mackenzie Valley fibre link contribution. I think this is a project that we all are looking forward to seeing completed. There’s $7 million listed for this coming fiscal year. Is that a one-time cost or, again, do we have a forecast into the future for that project? Thank you.

I’m delighted to hear that and thank the Premier for that. Does the Premier plan to provide an opportunity for this Assembly to debate and vote on the Devolution Agreement and, if not, why not?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to follow up a little bit on the Intergovernmental Council that the Premier mentioned earlier. I assume this division would be the one working with this. I believe it’s a construct that would happen after devolution. If I could just get an idea of what the membership would be and the role would be of the Intergovernmental Council, and maybe what GNWT’s position or relevance with respect to the council would be.