David Ramsay

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Like some of my colleagues, I’m happy to see the new initiative role out for the Tourism Product Diversification and Marketing Program. The one thing I will say, and it’s a lack of participation on behalf of the committee that looks at ITI, this is the first that we’ve seen of the program and I would hope, and I just wanted to get this on record, that as the program develops and it moves forward, that committee is involved in the rollout of this program because really this is the first time we’ve seen it. It makes it difficult for members on the Governance and...

Part 2, vote 2, capital investment expenditures, total supplementary appropriation for capital investment expenditures, $6.665 million.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Minister Roland.

Mahsi, Mr. Lafferty. Mr. Villeneuve.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I am just following up to that. If I was a business owner and I had spent a substantial amount of money like $8 million in one program area, and that is PeopleSoft, over the past 10 years and I was getting the service or the delivery of the program wasn’t what I thought it would be and maybe some things had happened in the past -- maybe my employees tinkered with it too much or did something to it -- I would want to get a third party, somebody to come in and tell me what has been happening with my investment of $8 million. I am wondering if the Minister has ever gone...

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Motion is in order. To the motion.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Minister Roland.

Thank you. Bill 18 is now ready for third reading, as amended. Thank you, committee. Thank you, Minister Roland. Thank you, Mr. Kalgutkar and Mr. Cleveland. Thank you, committee.

We’ll keep rolling here. We’re on Bill 15, the Liquor Act. For that I’d like to ask Minister Roland, the Minister responsible for Bill 15, to please introduce the bill. Minister Roland.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Dealing with Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 2, there are a few things that I wanted to get on record as saying. I guess I’ll start with the $523,000 to fund the shortfall and costs associated with the upgrade of PeopleSoft 8.9. As the Minister and other Ministers have heard earlier in this session, in fact if you go back to 1997 when PeopleSoft was first looked at as a product for the Government of the Northwest Territories, the government has spent approximately $8 million on PeopleSoft in total and that’s implementation costs and the costs upfront. It’s a...

Thank you very much, Minister Dent. Motion is being distributed. Motion is in order. To the motion.