Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That indeed sounds positive and I’d be curious to learn more about that. Maybe there will be an opportunity.

Now, I see our opening balance on the fund is continuing to increase or at least remaining stable. Are there any plans? Is that part of the equation here on getting this electronics recycling going? Are there plans for those dollars or is that the amount we want to continue to maintain in the fund? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. What’s the definition of short-term borrowing as opposed to long-term borrowing?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks for that response, Deputy Minister. That was interesting information on the mobile zones. Sounds like a unique opportunity there.

We are, again, just to repeat, we’ve clearly failed with caribou management and I can guarantee as a biologist and a keen observer that we will fail with the Bluenose-East herd unless this government gets up the gumption to close the season when the cow harvest is filled because the cow harvest will not stop. If the cow harvest has been filled, then we know that many more cows have been killed than the department is aware of. How many...

Two questions. So we’ve gone from 2,100 now down to two. That’s an interesting leap. What the public is demanding and has demanded…and the Premier’s strategy of giving them a website to look at will work. Over time, people will lose interest, be disconnected from government and there will be no transparency as the Premier would like. Clearly, what’s needed is some real interaction.

Again, when will the Premier put out a plain language version of all these acts to people and put out word when the meetings will be, where they will be and give them a real opportunity to have some input and make...

Thank you. So that work was completed. We have a strategy and all that that’s adopted now?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just following up on my Member’s statement, I wonder if I could ask the Premier, given the absolute failure of the consultation effort to date on this sweeping legislation, seven acts that we’ve mirrored, adopted completely from the federal government, what will be the revised consultation program that he’s going to put in place? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’d just like to follow up on my colleague. That was a very interesting discussion. I know people in the Sahtu, and certainly in all of the Northwest Territories were shocked with the national survey of spills to find that Imperial Oil as the highest culprit, so to speak, and the consequences had been minimal to nothing. But mostly, even local people were shocked by the information. Again, I appreciate my colleague bringing this up.

I’d just ask the Minister, will this position ensure that that sort of information is not a surprise, that people are well informed about it...

So our Fiscal Responsibility Policy and the infrastructure principle of having 50 percent surplus available doesn’t happen. It’s not true at the end of the year until midnight on the 31st. A second later then we have that 50 percent available. Is my understanding of that correct?

Thank you, Madam Chair. The discussion has raised one other question I have. When we pay off this short-term debt on the 1st of April, it puts us into a surplus positon, and I saw in the Minister’s budget address we’re in a surplus position for the next fiscal year. It’s predicted to be a surplus of I forget the amount. But just for clarity there, does that mean we will have a surplus until we take advantage of our short-term borrowing capacity at which time our net position will be debt of some amount? Is that correct?

Again, that’s great. I’m getting a much better understanding. The last part of that was how is the transparency handled? Is there a website that Members can go to see what is being characterized as short-term borrowing, long-term borrowing that the public could access?