Daryl Dolynny

Mr. Speaker, we did get some information here, but I do have another question to gather a little bit more statistics.

Another important measure of success of the implementation of audit recommendations by management is addressing these so-called outstanding high risks.

Can the Minister indicate to the House how many of these recommendations were reported in the 2013-2014 fiscal year and what percentage of these recommendations were actually implemented? Thank you.

Thank you, Deputy Minister Neudorf. Committee, I would like to draw your attention to the gallery today. We have with us joining our proceedings this afternoon, Ms. Gloria Ann Campbell from Tulita, who is with the Chief Albert Wright School looking after our Pages today.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to introduce to you and through you, as we’ve heard today, we have a number of recipients for the cultural and heritage awards. Thank you for sharing your incredible stories. We heard a lot of that today in the House. Of course, Mayor Furlong, it’s always a pleasure to have you with us here. Again, congratulations on your long journey as a cancer survivor.

I have two other people here who I’d like to recognize, one who I worked with for a number of years, Ms. Nicole Garbutt. It was a pleasure working with you for many years in the business sector. Many times in...

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.

So again we are getting more clarity in terms of where we are with our short-term borrowing, that during the course of daily operations of the government, cash in, cash out, paying our bills, all that kind of stuff, it sounds like we have very little wiggle room on our short-term borrowing, that we are really financing this government on cash surpluses between now and March 31st, which doesn’t leave us a lot of opportunity to deal with any type of mitigating circumstances should they arise.

Does the government foresee, outside of the normal appropriation program that we have before the House...

So again, I’m trying to do the math. I’m assuming these appropriations are coming out of short-term cash, and what we’ve heard from the deputy minister, when I asked a question with respect to the $20 million to mitigate the low water rate rider, with that appropriation the equal sign on our bank account, the drawdown was $225 million. Again, I do ask… Maybe I should rephrase my question and it might help when we get to the next page here. If we were to look at all the appropriations that we have before us, both in operations and I know we are going to be doing infrastructure after that, can...

Well, there was a question there that did not get answered. I asked about the short-term borrowing line. I’ll leave it to the Minister if he wants to elaborate more, because I think that’s an important question. If, again, the Minister doesn’t want to answer that question, just maybe he can indicate that.

We are borrowing that money from short-term borrowing and it would be nice to know where we’re sitting on our short-term borrowing line of credit. But I think conventional wisdom would prevail, and I think the public is smart enough to understand that we can talk in soliloquies about the...

If we’re hearing correctly, it was August 25th, which is almost one month and a day when the press release and also the press conference was being held by the Cabinet. As I said, I’m trying to figure out what was so pressing, the fact that it was one month that transpired between that information and the decision that everyone heard on the 26th of September. I guess the question, Mr. Chair, was there an imminent deadline that the PUB needed to have an answer by?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’d again like to welcome the Minister and the department here today for these general comments on the supplementary appropriation in the area of operations.

I wish to take the opportunity today to talk about two of the line items that we’re going to be discussing here today, the first of which is the fire suppression amount of $47 million. But before I do, I think it’s important that at every opportunity we have the pleasure of again thanking our own fire suppression teams across the Northwest Territories, both ground crew and air, and again to all the visiting...

So that number is about half. So what we’ve been able to piece together today is that the government has a corporate risk management framework, it follows some of its audit recommendations that we heard, about half of them and, again, it’s if they choose, it doesn’t report any of these findings publicly and it doesn’t share this information with Regular Members.

Can the Minister of Finance agree this is a correct summation? Thank you.