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Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.
Thank you, Mr. Campbell. Committee, we are 13-33, activity summary, conservation assessment and monitoring, operations expenditure summary, $8.423 million. Does committee agree?
Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. Deputy Minister Guy.
Thank you, Mr. Bromley. We’ll allow the Speaker to reply to that. Speaker Jacobson.
Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Committee, we’re on 3-19, information item, revenue summary. Any questions?
Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Miltenberger.
Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Mr. Campbell.
Thank you, Mr. Campbell. Mr. Bromley.
Thank you, Premier McLeod. Premier McLeod, do you have witnesses you’d like to bring into the House?
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Earlier today I raised a number of concerns on differing statistical numbers between Stats Canada and the GNWT pertaining to the subject of tobacco. However, what is most concerning, according to our public accounts, is that our actual tobacco collection is way off from the 2013 Main Estimates by a whopping $1.7 million. My questions will be for the Minister of Finance today.
Can the Minister offer an explanation why the data for smoking, smoking rates by population and daily average smoking rates, for example, differ between what the Government of the Northwest...