Daryl Dolynny

Sorry, Madam Chair. I couldn’t hear that. To clarify my question here for just opening comments here, is the in-house cost of doing IT services more cost effective than doing it in a TSC environment?

Thank you, Madam Chair. It is the wish of the committee to continue with Tabled Document 2-17(1), Northwest Territories Capital Estimates 2012-2013. We’d like to commence with the departments of Human Resources and Justice and, if time permits, MACA.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Over the past couple of days my fellow colleague Mr. Bromley, who is well respected among his peers and the citizens of the Northwest Territories on his views on climate change, was cited on the use of strong language to describe the seriousness of his thoughts. Although I tend to agree his choice of words may have been used in the wrong context, I do agree that his passion for making our government more accountable for our carbon footprint is dead on accurate and for that I do thank him.

It would be ill advised for me to stand before you and attempt to mimic or...

Thank you, Madam Chair. My question is obviously for the delegation here for Justice here, to maybe give some clarity to some of the expenses regarding to IT here. More specifically, from what I see here and have done some research and have been provided, we have I believe it was called a courts information system and an offender management system. One of the notes of question, I notice that I’m not sure if any of these are being hosted within our TSC environment, and if so, why, and is it done cheaper outside that environment?

Our real mission should be to deal with the economic realities of options in dealing with climate change and rewarding those who take the positive steps of change. In the end we all want the same thing. Maybe in the process we can reach the NWT’s true climate goals. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to inform the people of the Northwest Territories of a GNWT launch of “My Voice, My Choice,” a youth drug and alcohol prevention campaign. This launch is occurring on Thursday, December 15th, here at the Great Hall of the Legislative Assembly at 11:00 a.m. It is important that we encourage our northern youth and have them express their voice on this important topic. The campaign will use a similar well-known setup like Speakers Corner to gather video camera responses to questions pertaining to addictions and messages for youth. The video clips will be edited and...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today the honourable Minister of Finance, Michael Miltenberger, gave us a summary here regarding the borrowing limit. Being a businessperson of mind, it’s important to always have a strong balance sheet. I think that’s very agreeable. I think the Government of the Northwest Territories does have a very strong balance sheet in place. The Minister also uses terms like “economic levers,” and I’ve heard him speak many times about it and leveraging those economic levers. One such lever is our very own Crown corporation, the Power Corporation. Unfortunately, the Crown...

I can understand the Minister indicating that this is a definite “no” from the federal Minister. However, everyone knows that to leverage our assets is critical in order to remove that off our borrowing limit. Is this a dead issue or is this something that can be revisited here?

Thank you. Mr. Speaker, there is no denial that this has been a very difficult year in the world of northern aviation. Recent air tragedies and the recent loss of aviation pioneers like Mr. Paul Laserich of Adlair Aviation have made some of Range Lake constituents ask what can be done to remind us of the ongoing contribution of aviation in our communities and to commemorate those who risk their lives for the safety and well-being of others.

Bush Pilots Monument in Yellowknife’s Old Town was established in 1967, dedicated to bush pilots and engineers who lost their lives flying in the Northwest...

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. Mr. Miltenberger.