Daryl Dolynny

Thank you. Page 2-10, Executive, information item, active position summary. Are there any questions?

Page 2-22, Executive, activity summary, executive operations, grants and contributions, grants, total grants $350,000. Contributions, total grants and contributions, $350,000. Committee agree?

Thank you. Page 4-26, Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, activity summary, intergovernmental relations, grants and contributions, grants, total grants, $350,000. Contributions, total grants and contributions, $350,000.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’ll be speaking again, like some of my colleagues have on the Deh Cho Bridge. Earlier today we heard from the Minister himself who said it’s not going to cost us more money. I guess I’m really questioning why we’re really here. It is costing us more money. We’ve heard that there’s going to be a supplemental coming and I think the people of the Northwest Territories are feeling this new ask feels more like a ransom than the completion of a project, and I think the people are sick of it. Really what we have here is a new negotiated deal with a negotiated price with an...

At such time as we do get a result to this question – and I know I’m speaking to the Minister of Social Services and that’s why I wanted the Minister of Justice to be within earshot – at such time as we can have programs in place, that we can actually have these protocols in place to create programs for these people who need purpose. The issue of violence, the issue of safety, the issue of theft is widespread in the downtown corridor. Merchants are screaming for our attention. I guess with this could also be brought to the social envelope Ministers is to have more policing in place with more...

Thank you, committee. I’d like to thank our witnesses here today, Mr. Elkin and Ms. DeLancey. If I can get the Sergeant-at-Arms to escort them out of the Chamber, please. Thank you.

Noting the time, committee, we will take a short break and we’ll return after that. Thank you.

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Thank you. I’ll get the Sergeant-at-Arms to bring the witnesses in, please. Thank you.

Premier McLeod, please introduce your witnesses, please.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and welcome to the Minister and the delegation here this evening. I know everyone is a bit tired.

I have two items that I would like to bring; observations during the process or preparation for the Department of Finance being here today. One in which is an observation in accounting practices and it has to deal with the issue of amortization.

Coming from the corporate side or the corporate sector for most of my adult life, amortization I know is dealt with a little bit differently in the public sector. That said, in a lot of cases throughout the process of the Finance...

I’ll be coming back to the Auditor General report here later on in this budget process.

My next question has to do with medical equipment. In the line entry here we have as medical equipment under $50,000. There seems to be a slight increase. However, it is well known that we have, especially at the territorial hospital, a number of large pieces of equipment that are nearing their lifecycles. A lot of this major equipment was purchases in the late ‘90s, early 2000’s. Some of this equipment is now entering 12 years of lifecycle and needs to be looked at. I’m speaking specifically to things like...