Daryl Dolynny

Thank you. I do concur with the Minister. It’s always exciting news to hear that a project is going ahead of schedule, but I want to zone in a little bit on what was just said. The Minister mentions that money is spent for work done, and quite frankly, I think Members on this side of the House were led to believe that not all the work was done last season for various reasons, but again, this was the first year the group was building a road in a very trying environment, but there wasn’t all those milestones being met. So the work was not completely done so there would have been money lapsed...

Thank you, committee. With that, I will ask Ms. Bisaro what is the wish of committee.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the Minister bringing forward the capital estimates for 2015-2016. Of course, I want to keep my comments as general as I can. I will base my dialogue on the presentation that I just had here.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Blake. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Finance. In April 2014 the Fraser Institute published “Canadian Government Debt 2014 – A Guide to the Indebtedness of Canada and the Provinces.” Please provide the following data, according to the definitions of the Fraser Institute Report, for the 2013-2014 fiscal year:

NWT government liabilities for

total direct debt;

total debt guarantees;

total contingent liabilities and contractual commitments;

total program obligations; and

total government liabilities

consolidated government liabilities, per capita and as a percentage of GDP for

total...

Thank you, Mr. Blake. Minister Miltenberger.

What we’re hearing from the Minister today, if we compare this to last year’s public accounts, we’ve increased somewhat a number of our tax assessments from the previous year but this is translated, I believe, to a substantially larger assessment of dollars being recovered. Just my quick math here, showing about $2.7 million recovered, which is incredible.

Given these startling numbers, what measures are the Minister or the department prepared to change on how we deal with the self-reporting tax for both tobacco and fuel?

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Minister Miltenberger.