Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Committee was concerned at one point and, in fact, passed a motion in the House during the 16th Assembly, on the Milk Container Program. It seemed a little bit against our general goals. We want people to be healthy and our children to grow up healthy, and probably the single most important factor nutritionally is milk or an equivalent, so that we didn’t want the extra payment for a deposit to be additional to the cost of milk and we had proposed in the motion, which was passed in the House, that that down payment be returned, but we agreed with the idea to have a deposit...

That is excellent news. Was that process initiated by this government? Did it come from municipalities independently? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. My questions are for the Minister responsible for the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission.

How many and which departments are not in compliance with the mandatory requirement for the establishment of health and safety committees?

What are the claims costs and the claims experience penalties paid by the GNWT in the last three fiscal years under the Safe Advantage Program, and to which departments are they attributable?

What scores has the GNWT been given in the last three fiscal years on its management practices questionnaires?

Mahsi.

Just on the Resource Predevelopment Program and the Aboriginal capacity building and community consultations, could I get a breakdown of what those are for as well?

Yes, sorry, Mr. Chairman. I was referring to the programs. What land programs are in this division and receiving some of the funding, albeit a small proportion? Thank you.

Mr. Chair, I think the Minister probably meant national corporations, if this is the internal trade. It just has to do with Canada. I was meaning companies external to the Northwest Territories, but Canadian or other companies within Canada that more and more seem to be Americans these days under the Conservative government, but I was referring to national companies. If I can just get confirmation on that. Thank you.

The Minister is not hearing this side of the House. We are about prevention. I think three years is unreasonable. We have passed the motion in the 16th Assembly. This government has already spoken repeatedly from this side of the House. That is a totally unacceptable time frame and does not match with the crime bill either, which is already, according to the Minister, partly being implemented here. We are suffering those consequences. Jurisdictions across the country, indeed across North America, have put in mental health courts. There’s nothing new about this. This is proven. This has often...

Thanks for that interpretation of everybody pulling out. I’m sure that’s getting some chuckles across the territory on a very serious subject. Given that the MGP will not be pulling forward, is this just blind support that we freely give away taxpayers’ money on an impossible venture to which there will be absolutely no progress possible for the next few years? Or are we requiring some response for those dollars such as they become experts in biomass and start doing some biomass projects or something like that? Obviously, they’re based, I believe, in Inuvik and there are serious energy issues...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My question on this page, the land and water program, we’re at about pushing $4 million and I’m wondering how much of this is land and how much of this is water expenditures.

Thanks to the Minister for that further information. Will that be coming to committee, then, and what does it look like the time frame is on that? Thank you.