Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, committee. Before we dismiss our witnesses, I think you heard it from the Speaker, but on behalf of Committee of the Whole, Mr. Koe, good luck at the Brier representing Northwest Territories.

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I would like to thank our witnesses, Mr. Aumond, Mr. Koe, Mr. Kalgutkar, and thank you to the Minister. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses out. At this time, committee, we’ll take a short recess.

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Thank you, Mr. Bromley. We will just give the department a second to figure that one out. Minister Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the ability to bring this motion forward. It should be no surprise to the Cabinet or the Premier that I’m doing that. I brought this issue up, and so have many other Members over the years, and I actually brought it up last week in the House.

The program review office has been considered important just as of late, and I’ll get to that in a second. In fact, I just want to backtrack a little bit here. In the Finance Minister’s opening budget address, I went back and looked through every line and not one line in there mentions the words program review office. It...

Ms. Eggenhofer.

Thank you, Mr. Blake. To the motion. Mr. Menicoche.

Committee, if I could get you to return to 5-7, Finance, department summary, operations expenditure summary, $210.630 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. For that, we’ll go to Ms. Martin.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a motion.

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. On this page activity, we have Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. To the motion. Mrs. Groenewegen.