David Ramsay

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Your committee has been considering Bill 2, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 4, 2004-2005, and would like to report that Bill 2 is ready for third reading. Madam Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, committee. Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I agree with the Minister that the government could look at moving some jobs and some things outside of the capital city. I agree with decentralization as a principle of this government, but why would you do something with a program that affects children and families and most of the referrals are out of this region and north of the city of Yellowknife? I don’t understand the rationale behind that. If you want to move government jobs, that’s one thing, but when you start messing around with a program that is supposed to help children and families, then I have to take...

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. Minister.

Agreed. Thank you, committee, and I would like to thank the Minister and Mr. Voytilla for being with us today. Thank you. What is the wish of the committee? Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Minister.

Agreed. We are going to go to schedules first before we go into the clause by clause. If I could draw your attention to page 3, it starts on schedule, part I, vote I, operations expenditures, total supplementary appropriation for operations expenditures, $20.520 million.

Thank you, committee members. We will call Committee of the Whole back to order. As I said, we have a number of items on the agenda today: Ministers' statements 1-15(4), 3-15(4), 4-15(4) and 5-15(4). We are going to discuss these Ministers' statements concurrently, so they are open to be addressed by any Member. Who would like to go first? Comments. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. Premier.