Daryl Dolynny

Madam Chair, I appreciate the department’s agreeing in terms of making this process as streamlined as possible.

My next question has to do with program delivery details. Although slight in nature, we do see a decrease in children and family services where they predominantly show a steady increase over a number of budgets. Can the department give us an indication why there was a slight decrease in that budget? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Page 8-33, Health and Social Services, information item.

Thank you, Premier McLeod. Page 2-13, Executive, activity summary, directorate, operations expenditure summary, $9.980 million.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Premier McLeod.

Committee, if I can get you to turn back to page 4-7. Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, department summary, operations expenditure summary, $7.304 million. Does committee agree?

I heard 1.4 or 5 percent. If I’m wrong, please correct me at the next opportunity to the Minister. Where I’m going with this point, Madam Chair, is we had at our disposal opportunity money at 1.45 percent, but the government went out and increased our debt limit or our borrowing limit up to $800 million, which obviously is required, but we dissolved this amount of ability to borrow at 1.45 percent and I believe now, Madam Chair, if we can get confirmation, we’re now paying almost three times that interest rate for the very same money that we had at a third of that. Can we get some...

Thank you. I guess it’s a simple ask to the department, I mean, if there’s an open dialogue with the parents of these patients, if they give indication that they’re going to reside or continue to reside in the Northwest Territories, wouldn’t it be prudent to save a lot of grief in creating a supplementary appropriation when we can actually put it in the main estimates at this juncture?

Thank you very much. We’re on page 8-29, Health and Social Services, activity summary, community health programs, operations expenditure summary, $87.998 million. Committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Next on general comments I have Mr. Moses.

Thank you, Mr. Warren. Mr. Bromley.