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Thank you, Mr. Bromley. No, I just wanted to give him a minute to gather that information here. We’ll go to Minister Beaulieu.
Thank you, Speaker Jacobson. General comments. Mr. Bromley.
Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister Miltenberger.
Thank you, Mr. Campbell, for correcting. Ms. Bisaro.
Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.
Thank you, Mr. Bromley. For that we’ll go to Mr. Campbell.
Thank you, committee. I’d like to thank Ms. Gault, Mr. Guy and Mr. Lewis for joining us this evening, and thanks to the Minister. Sergeant-at-Arms, if you could please escort the witnesses out of the Chamber. Thank you.
Committee, we’re going to continue on here with the main estimates. With that, we have the Department of Executive. We’ll turn it over to the Premier if he has any opening comments. Premier McLeod.
These statistics don’t match, and clearly, the tobacco tax revenue shortfall makes even less sense.
Let’s take a moment to summarize all this information today. First of all, when it comes to the data of smoking, Stats Canada reports different numbers than the GNWT. Why? Our Department of Health reports very little data on smoking and so much is left to the imagination. Why? Our actual tobacco tax collection, according to public accounts, is way off in the 2013 Main Estimates. Why? Finally, the smoking gun question I ask every session: Why does our Finance Minister continue to ignore the issue...
Thank you, Mr. Campbell. Mr. Bromley.
Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.