Daryl Dolynny

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?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Canada Health Transfer to provinces and territories has grown steadily from $20.3 billion in 2005 and is expected to reach $28.6 billion in 2012-13, at a growth rate around 6 percent. Under the federal government’s new unilateral funding formula, this growth will continue until 2017-18, and then proceed in line with nominal GDP growth at around the 3 percent per year level.

This all sounds pretty good and it’s simply an extension of what the provinces and territories have become accustomed to to receive from the federal government. Even the Minister of Finance has...

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Over to Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. We’ll go to Minister Miltenberger.

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