Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Aumond. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. For that, I’ll go to Mr. St. Germaine.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. If the Minister would like to provide some clarity in terms of the negative operations expenditure of $326,000. Again, it talks about costs associated for Yellowknife Consolidated Health Clinic lease. If I can get a clarification on that, please. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. I’ll now turn it to the Minister if he has witnesses he would like to bring into the House.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Committee Report 6-17(5), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on the Review of 2014 Report of Auditor General of Canada on Northwest Territories Child and Family Services; Tabled Document 93-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 1, 2014-2015; Bill 8, Write-off of Debts Act, 2013-2014; and Bill 9, Forgiveness of Debts Act, 2013-2014. I would like to report progress with 21 motions adopted and that Committee Report 6-17(5) is concluded and that Bills 8 and 9 are ready for third reading and that...

Thank you, Madam Chair. We’re hoping that for the upcoming business planning cycle for 2014-2015 that this indeed is part of the business process and we look forward to seeing these performance indicators with all future business plans performance.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Miltenberger.

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

Thank you, committee. Mr. Miltenberger, for the record, could you please introduce your witness back to the House.

I would probably agree with that comment if this was year one of the four-year implementation plan of rate increases, but we’re not in year one. I believe we’ve completed year two, so we’re well into the four-year rate increases from the Public Utilities Board. So I have a hard time understanding how we didn’t anticipate that and we didn’t have that number in time, hence we’re seeing it today.

Can I get some clarification in the first just so that, again, we’ve got all the dates right here because, again, we’re talking ‘14-15 here. Are we saying that this was year one of the implementation plan...

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. We’re just waiting for the final document to circulate. The motion is in order and the motion is not debatable. The motion is carried.

---Carried

I’d like to thank our witnesses here tonight. Mr. Kalgutkar and Mr. Aumond, thank you for joining us. If I can get the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses out of the Chamber.

Okay, committee, as previously agreed upon here earlier today, we are going to go to Bill 8. With that, we’ll go to the sponsor of the bill for opening comments. Minister Miltenberger.