Floyd Roland

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Nahendeh, that Bill 13, Change of Name Act, be read for the third time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta, that Bill 17, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 4, 2006-2007, be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, no, it is not 50 percent of the actual expenditures. For example, out-of-territorial hospitals, the revised estimates we have is in the neighbourhood of $13 million; $13.6 million. Physicians is over $3 million, and a number of other organizations, Metis health benefits over $1 million, extended health benefits is $6.8 million. So there's substantially more being spent already. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I think this government can speak by action and the fact that if you look at our budget, what we have done in our term to address those costs in the Northwest Territories, establish programs; for example, the Income Support Reform Program and a number of other areas. We have invested a lot of money in that area, so I think our record speaks for itself that we have become more involved. When you look at the total cost of spending on social programs by the government, we have done and carried a fair bit of weight in trying to address those concerns in the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will give you what I am familiar with and then I will go to Mr. Cleveland for more detail. As we looked to properties that have been transferred to the Government of the Northwest Territories in previous years by other governments or as we purchased properties for our use, we have done estimates on the potential liabilities and more, at least to where I'm familiar with, negotiate that in a transfer in recognition of that. For more details how that's happened, what may have happened prior to that, I'll go to Mr. Cleveland.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I think the fact is, as a government, we’ve heard the concerns about funding to NGOs. The study that was done was initiated through Yellowknife Health and Social Services with the organization partly to look at how they could seek funding from other sources and, as well, for Yellowknife Health and Social Services to address how it would put forward its submission to the department on forced growth. The government, overall, has heard this concern through our business planning process and we’ve looked at it and looked at the categories of NGOs and how they...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, yes.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, at the request of Members, as well as from just our own internal look at it, we decided that we needed to do this work and I committed to bringing that report back to Members. I hope that we can have that and I believe we should be able to provide that to committee before the end of this session. Hopefully I can deliver it to committee early next week. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, to my right is the secretary to the FMB, Mr. Mark Cleveland; and to my left is Louise Lavoie, assistant comptroller general.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, and I must say the Member has been consistent during our time here in the 15th Legislative Assembly on raising issues from our Stanton Territorial Health Authority and the hospital, where other nurses around the territory have to rely on the normal process through their union processes that we negotiate. The question is a good one because it gives me an opportunity to highlight where in fact we have made significant moves and improved significantly the use of and how we’ve worked with nurses in the Northwest Territories.

Mr. Speaker, the 2006-2007 year was...