Daryl Dolynny

Committee, if I could get you to return back to 14-7, Lands, department summary, operations expenditure summary, $26.830 million. Does committee agree?

No further questions, Mr. Chair.

Page 14-26, information item, informatics, activity positions. Any questions?

If that’s indeed the case, what impact will this have on the overall main estimates? I mean, this is a fairly large chunk of money, $17 million. Is this captured in the overall numbers that we’re continuously hearing about from the Minister of Finance about a shortfall and everything? Is this factored in?

Thank you, committee. Page 14-22, information item, active positions. Any questions?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, as a Member, it is sometimes difficult. We end up critiquing many things in the budget and sometimes we don’t take a minute to say thank you for some of the great things that are being done in this government. In my humble opinion, this division – sport, recreation and youth – is definitely under thanked many times, even though we get to see them in action out in the communities, especially our Youth Ambassador Program, by watching the kids do such a fantastic job, especially in the Summer Games and we are waiting for the upcoming Arctic Winter Games in Alaska. I...

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. We’re going to go to Deputy Minister Warren.

I appreciate the Minister’s commitment. The Minister is aware that I’ve been very vocal on water. We’ve got some great stewardship; we’ve got some great water management strategies. I know the Minister of ENR is well known for the ethics we’re bringing to the Water Strategy and I support all those initiatives. I just want to make sure we’ve got something that the public has access to and it’s updated regularly. I think that’s my goal.

I will leave this with my last question. The GNWT report on drinking water, the last one tabled, according to this website and according to Hansard, is 2011. We...

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister McLeod.

We heard – and I had to go check my notes – this drinking water website or an updated version of the website probably almost two years ago, almost when I first started as a Member. I’m still very concerned.

This is the only website that the public has in order to validate, reassure them in a transparent manner if the testing is being done. So what are those barriers that we can’t update this website with the community drinking water teams that are allegedly doing this testing? Thank you.