Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Minister Ramsay. Mr. Bromley.

I appreciate the deputy minister’s response to that. I’m looking forward to that report. Under the same title, strategic leadership, and basically as a coordinator, I will take the liberty, an opportunity to talk a little bit more about the Anti-Poverty Initiative, which really falls under, because this is a social envelope committee lead here, can the Minister indicate what new monies, total new monies, are being involved with this new initiative? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Moses. To the motion. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, committee. I am going to ask you to return to page 8-7, operations expenditure summary for Department of Health. Department summary, operations expenditure summary, $391.929 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. I’ll take that as a comment. Page 8-23, activity summary, health services programs, operations expenditure summary, $209.007 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Abernethy.

Thank you, Madam Chair. As we all are aware, the directorate is really the strategic think-tank and the overall coordinator of pretty much the Department of Health, and so with that I expect a certain level of, I guess, leadership. We know that the management of drinking water is a shared responsibility with a number of other departments here in the Northwest Territories. However, because we share this responsibility, no lead department takes that active role as being the leader, and that’s the concern that I think a lot of Members have and have expressed many, many times. Unfortunately, with...

Go ahead, Mr. Moses.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister Abernethy.