Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My understanding is the process is moving along and things are moving at the normal pace, whether some may accept that or not. It is moving along and it’s a matter of scheduling the actual hearings. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I guess as being a Member of the Legislative Assembly for as long as I have, the capital planning process has always drawn attention from Members of the Assembly about the selection process; what gets approved, what gets deferred, what project seems to move up on the order paper in a sense.

It has been recognized and there have been a couple of attempts to try to address those concerns. The real difficulty we have found around capital programs began in the mid-1990s when the government was faced with a huge deficit situation. Large reductions were made...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, yes, we foresee this area changing. Right now it's recognizing the human resource services that we have existing. With the structure changing, it will grow accordingly and we'll have to recognize that as we go forward. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, it’s underneath government accounting and within our Financial Administration Manual where we set these guidelines up. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I agree with the Member that, as she laid it out, the first socioeconomic agreement can be interpreted a number of ways. It's not very tight. We've learned from that. From a GNWT perspective, we have tightened it up to better reflect where we want to go and see things as the secondary industry develops. But at the same time, we, as a government, have to look at the big picture. The resources that are coming out of the ground are resources that belong to the people of the Northwest Territories, if we're going to believe in land rights and that...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, my understanding of the program is when the Power Corporation was actually a federal entity it was established back then and has been following along the same program as we’ve taken it over. One of the things we’re doing with our review is to look at that, as well, if that’s the right sort of mechanism that we would use. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, that work is now part of the human resource service centres that we are working on and the pay and benefits side has been incorporated into that, so that work is proceeding. From the headquarters end, we are looking at amalgamating the pay…I guess it comes down to the ability to write the cheques to one location so we have consistency in that area. That work is, again, part of the process we are in now through the human resource service centres. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Member has raised this issue on a number of occasions now and probably won’t be satisfied with the responses he gets today that I have tried to supply information about where we are and the process used. There are a few key things that have impacted where we can go as a Financial Management Board and our involvement. One is the original agreements that were put in place and who would be parties to those discussions. The process, as laid out, is the government was involved on the front end to see if a producer or a company could be looked at satisfactorily and...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the policy wording itself isn’t as specific to say Yellowknife base rate, that we can compare it to the rates that are set up by the PUB. We’ve been interpreting it through FMBS as being the Yellowknife rate. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the Public Service Act that we are going to be going forward with is going to follow on the heels of the human resource service centres' work. Once we have that piece of work done, then we can begin to focus on that. This is one of the high priorities that we hold. As we move forward with that, we are going to need to sit down with committee members to see where we want to see our public service go and how we proceed down the road that is acceptable to Members of the Assembly. It’s early and we need to sit down and have that discussion, but it will...