Daryl Dolynny

Thank you. Page 8-32, Health and Social Services, information item, community health programs, active positions. Are there any questions?

Thank you. Page 2-11, Executive, action item, directorate, operations expenditures. Ms. Bisaro.

Page 2-23, Executive, information item, executive operations, active positions. Any questions? Being none, page 2-25, Executive, activity summary, Cabinet support, operations expenditure summary, $3.156 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you. Page 4-27. Mr. Blake.

I’m not sure if the word is legally binding or legally bound. It’s a bit confusing. The reason I’m asking that first question is that legally binding, when we first negotiated this price with Ruskin, there was obviously holdbacks involved. These are legal parts of large-scale projects. Anyone who builds houses or any type of infrastructure knows that. What’s happening now with these holdbacks? Are these being leveraged, and if not, why not?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Next I have Ms. Bisaro.

Welcome back, committee. Next on our list we have the Department of Executive. With that, we have Premier McLeod. Premier McLeod, do you have any opening comments?

Page 2-21, Executive, activity summary, executive operations, operations expenditure summary, Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Premier McLeod. We’ll open up the floor to general comments.

Thank you, Madam Chair. My questions are somewhat in line with the Member for Hay River North. The recent population statistics showed that we increased by a whopping two people lately and we’re still trying to find where those two people are. Given the fact that population is relatively flat and taxation is based on a per capita increase in the area we see here, where is the department getting their calculations or their crystal ball, so to speak, that we’re going to be seeing an influx of people? Our statistics show, like I said, an increase of just two people in the last census.