Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As a result of a Liquor Board review or hearing and a fine being put on an establishment, the establishment would have the ability to appeal and could go to court, but because that fine was established under the Liquor Act, it would end up coming back in here and this is where it would show up. If it is the result of a Liquor Board hearing and an establishment gets fined, if they appeal they can go to court and appeal it, but at the end of the day if that ruling holds, because it started under the Liquor Act, this is where the money would show.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, I understand that it does cause some hardship to those families that don’t have a lot of funds to use between jobs. We will be working with the departments to ensure that we pick up on that process and improve on it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The avenue that we work with insurance is strictly with our own assets right now, in setting up that environment and covering our assets with the insurance program that we've put up. We would be prepared to work with the Department of Health and Social Services if they were to come forward and ask for some assistance in looking at what options might be out there. Right now they are working internally, and I know that just because of the situation that I'm aware of from my constituency. So it's not from knowledge through the department itself, but I am aware of that...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The area the Member is speaking about, reallocations are from within all the departments. They would find money from within areas that they felt they could give up. In our effort to reduce our expenditures as well as knowing that there is demand for increased expenditures, instead of just taking that right out of the budget a lot of that was refocused to what is considered to be higher priority items. So within our Department of Finance, there is little of that because ours is focused on revenues and managing that end of it, but within each department there has been...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Under the operating results, if you go to 3-20, Liquor Commission revolving fund, operating results under income, the last item, Liquor Licensing Board revenue, that is made up of a couple of things. There is a fee charged to all the licensees and that fee is incorporated there, as well as the fines that occur. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, they do apply to us. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The insurance cost, the total premium we're estimating to spend this fiscal year in 2004-05, is $2.030 million. So we've made a significant savings of what would have been required if we didn't make those changes. Again, that's $2.030 million as the premiums we've estimated this year.

Again our cash position, short-term borrowing, there are a number of factors that flow in there and can impact on that. If we find ourselves not meeting some of our targets or not implementing some of our revenue options, not implementing some of the potential savings through...

Thank you, Madam Chair. There were a number of areas that we’ve built the business case on for meeting with our federal counterpart, and there were areas that we also worked with our other northern jurisdictions, the Yukon and Nunavut. One of the critical areas was the adequacy argument, as we call it. That term adequacy can be defined by any number of groups to meet their definition but, in our case, it was to deal with the five percent cut to our base that happened in 1996 and to have that restored. We feel that it has been restored in all of the other jurisdictions through the CHST...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The last increase took place April 1, 2003. As a result of that, we estimated approximately $1 million as a result of that increase. So the last increase, April 1, 2003, was a 10 percent increase in mark-ups. We estimated a net result of approximately $1 million.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize my constituency assistant from Inuvik, originally from Sachs Harbour, and this time I will get it right, her name is Brenda Dillon.