Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My questions will be around the same theme as my colleagues, around the personal income tax and the corporate income tax.

I guess to set the stage here is to look at what the past has shown us, and if you look at the past tabled documents when it looks at the main estimates, the curiosity I have here is I find that there has been some revised-revised estimates, that I am looking at here with respect to the ‘13-14 revised estimates. But that’s fine. We kind of got the explanation here from the deputy minister.

I just wanted to be clear; we have heard from the Minister...

I will just conclude here. Maybe if the Minister or deputy minister can help this Member find out that question – who administers that mining tax – at some point in time, that would be appreciated. Thank you.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Mr. Koe, Mr. Kalgutkar, Mr. Aumond, welcome to the Chamber again. Committee, we would like to do general comments.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In the wake of accepting the meagre budget for the Mental Health and Addictions Plan, reluctantly, I must add, I have decided to give this topic a bit of sunshine today.

We have heard, been reaffirmed and even guaranteed by the Minister of Health and Social Services that our residents today are in better care in their most desperate time of need. We are told that in 24 hours or less if you come forward with addiction issues you’ll be whisked away to one of four out-of-territory fabulous resorts where you’ll be given state-of-the-art care, and this is all being done at...

Thank you, Mr. Blake. Minister Ramsay.

Thank you, committee. Committee, we’ll defer 5-7. We’ll come back to it after we’re finished the activity summaries. Committee, I have 5-8, information item, infrastructure investment summary. Any questions?

So I can assume that under grants and contributions, there is a Mining Incentive Program. It states in this area, $400,000. I would assume, from what we are hearing today, that the NWT geoscience office controls this grant money. Is that correct?

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Does committee agree?

I’m actually going off an old book so they must have updated it since the estimates were given. With respect to that money, I know that speaking to the film industry directly, being a participant in a number of their Q&As and open houses and speaking to a lot of the film directors themselves, I got the impression that although they’re appreciative of a potential rebate, that was not exactly what they felt would have the most and deepest impact on their bottom line. They were very clear and very adamant that they need what they refer to as cultural film advisors or cultural film experts. I know...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The question was who administers the mining tax credit? Thank you.