Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. We’ll go to Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thanks for allowing us to have some opening comments here on this budget address. I guess first and foremost one of the questions I’ll have for the Minister is he’s obviously breaking tradition by not buying a new pair of shoes today and have him answer that question as to why not. Obviously, I know there’s a custom involved with this.

I’m going to be kind of going not in any type of order per se in terms of priority, but obviously just kind of making some overall comments as things unfold here.

One of the things I know the budget seemed to have lacked or is lacking is...

Again, I do thank the Minister for clarifying that. Changes that are going to occur in funding are definitely going to affect this territory. It would be prudent to know what exactly the mechanics are behind that in terms of the financial mechanics that we’re going to be looking at. So much so that my next question has to deal with as we move forward in terms of the future. A lot of these processes are a five-year outlook and they say after 2017-2018 that the changes could be even further drastically affected. Does the Minister or the department have a strategy in place? As he indicated in his...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today will be for the Minister of Finance as a follow-up to my Member’s statement. Back in December 2011 our Minister of Finance along with his colleagues were dealt with the federal announcement, I guess, drastic announcement of the changes in the Health Canada transfers that were going to be occurring over the next five years. This has been a subject of great debate amongst provinces and territories, so much so that even the Premiers themselves are leveraging in in terms of their confusion as to what exactly the outlook is going to happen over the next...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 3-17(3), Northwest Territories Main Estimates 2012-2013, and would like to report progress, and that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. With that, we’ll be going to the Member for Weledeh, Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. We’ll go to the Member for Frame Lake, Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. With that we’ll be going over to Mr. Bouchard.

Again, I do appreciate the Minister being forthright with the House here in terms of a very serious topic, one in which I know wasn’t part of the budget address but one in which I think should affect everyone here in this room in terms of large funding dollars.

My last question for the Minister is one in which I brought in my Member’s statement. There seems to be a push or a movement to look at a two-tiered system with respect to funding and being pushed by the provinces. I want to know if the Minister is indeed on board with that certain thinking. Which is meaning are we including an...

I appreciate the Minister’s thorough response to that. Again reassuring the House that on the short term or short order, so to speak, that we are okay and probably one of the better recipients of the so-called short-term order.

As I said in my Member’s statement here, changes in the health care transfers are going to shift dramatically in 2014-2015 on a per capita cash basis. Can the Minister indicate to me how that’s going to change the funding formula for that year moving forward?