Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Does committee agree that there are no further general comments?

In the end, the final report card for the McLeod government on operations spending growth and forecasting is a B minus. Increased inaccuracy in budget forecasting during the life of the 17th greatly affected this grade. Yet, luckily, this grade could have been much worse if not for the controls in place during the new NWT responsibilities following its devolution. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Blake. We’ll go to Minister Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I welcome the department here today. I just want to first talk about the economic landscape. As you heard earlier today from the Minister of Finance on the fiscal update, I think it’s important that we view this capital expenditure budget, but I think we need to be wary of some of those high-level issues that we heard and I think many of us know as well.

We know that this current government, the 17th Assembly, struggled in balancing expansion of growth and keeping it in mind with revenue growth. That’s been mentioned many times. This is even more pronounced now when we see...

Thank you, Mr. Moses. We’ll turn it over to Minister Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Guy. I believe I heard the Minister indicate to go to Mr. Neudorf. I will concur. Mr. Neudorf.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. We’ll allow the Minister to reply. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Minister Lafferty.

Thank you, committee. Sergeant-at-Arms, if you could escort the witnesses into the Chamber.

Mr. Miltenberger, if you would be kind enough to introduce your witnesses into the House.