Bob Bromley

I appreciate the Minister’s remarks on that. Just to confirm, I do indeed try and do full cost accounting, so I appreciate the Minister’s remarks there. Generally, I think it’s been a very successful program, the Waste Reduction and Recovery Act, and I support its further implementation. I am very happy to see this going ahead. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If I may just be allowed to complete the thought and relieve you of that concern, I think it is important that we are low on population in the North. It is useful to get together with our sister territories and develop common positions. I believe I have heard the Premier say that a number of times. I know that the Minister, too, agrees with that. I would have thought that we would have been in consultation with our sister territories. Are we in consultation with any of our sister territories? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I had noted previously that there is quite a substantial reduction in the commitment for energy expenditures and that this is costing us, especially I think in the production of both heat and power from renewable energy. We have fallen down and it is now costing us considerable many tens of millions of dollars in subsidies. This sort of thing will continue if we do education. We don’t quit while we reorganize our education; we continue to deliver education. I think that is what we are about here.

If we allow this trend to continue, of course, more and more will have to...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think my colleague has expressed concerns about this area, as we did in our motion in the House on Thursday. This is a walloping 78 percent cut to energy planning. I know there has been concern about the lack of progress on this front during the 16th Assembly despite spending a lot of dollars, so we perhaps do indeed need to go back to the drawing board and do some better planning there.

On the other hand, we have done a lot of feasibility work and feasibility studies. We have, in my mind, procrastinated to the point where some of those opportunities are now slipping...

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.