Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, committee. Sergeant-at-Arms, if you can please escort our witnesses into the House.

Minister Miltenberger, if you would be kind enough to introduce your witnesses to the House, please.

The government has used, in the past, tools such as the Fairness Commissioner to help mitigate very significant RFPs and most recently the issue with the medevac program. What safeguards do we have for these businesses that we’ll have a degree of fairness? Again, they’re working with big brother, they’re dealing with big brother and they’re at the mercy of big brother. What tools do they have to make sure that big brother is playing nice in the sandbox?

I guess the rationale for my questioning is that sometimes in business the quickest fix to find money is to go lean on insurance and do a re-evaluation of your replacement costs and depreciate those costs to the tune where it makes it very difficult to make that investment. I’m just hoping that we as a government are maintaining the right level of insurance for the amount of assets we have coming on our books. That’s my rationale for the question, Mr. Chair.

We know that this area of the activity is involved with debt management. With that, we know that the Macroeconomic Policy, which is used...

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Do you have witnesses you want to bring into the House today?

I just want to make sure that I don’t mask savings with responsibility of accounting. I want to make sure that the accounting does make sense. I represent one of those liquor stores in my riding that is gravely affected by this change. I want to make sure that there is no disruption in service. I want to make sure that this business is duly protected under this new model and that I don’t want to see any undue hardship, financial or otherwise, being put on this business and including the business in the downtown. Again, I received a commitment that there will be some information sharing and I’m...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We know that this category involves the insurance, basically the risk management of the GNWT. We know that in the past we continuously have heard that there’s a change in our Risk Management Framework, which I would assume would affect how we calculate our premiums for our insurance evaluation assessment. We know that when we’ve done this in the past, large items of infrastructure such as the Deh Cho Bridge and Inuvik school were slow to get trickled on to our insurance line. So with that, and because I have yet to see a document of our Risk Management Framework publicly...

Alright, committee. We’ll commence after just a short break.

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I appreciate the information that this was effective September. I’m assuming September of 2014, I would assume, and it’s not in effect now? Or is it in effect in 2015?

Historically, has the Department of Finance ever, with unfunded or funded positions, moved any money or appropriated the money by taking it out of this category of compensation and benefits and used it in other areas within the Department of Finance in historical purposes? Thank you.

What is the wish of committee? Ms. Bisaro.