Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In the area of other expenses for this budget would fall under…Travel is one of the areas that's in there. For the detail, I will have Ms. Melhorn provide some of that information.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess my focus is from the start when we took office and moving forward, previous expenditure patterns by government were made on their assumptions of what they might expect and where they could possibly end up and hoping for new sources of revenue. The amount -- I believe you will find it in the budget address -- that the gap between when we first took office, the potential deficit we might have gotten if we didn’t change anything and closing that gap from almost $80 million on our revenue side versus the expenditure side to bring it down to where we would come in...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. No. The fines that would fall under here are by the Liquor Licensing Board that they would impose at their hearings. This is what is incorporated here, not when an individual goes to court. This is through the Liquor Licensing Board and the hearings they have held and when they put fines on establishments. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my understanding of the process is that when the employee is going to leave, they inform their immediate supervisor in the department of whatever department they are working for, and that initiates the process of getting the paperwork done, then it flows through to FMBS. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The insurance amounts do cover health boards, education boards. Communities have their own system, and that's the $1.9 million that the Member referred to. That is within Municipal and Community Affairs, and that's to cover their changing insurance program and working with the Association of Communities. So that is included in that, and you will be able to get more detail on that through the Municipal and Community Affairs department when we go through their draft mains.

Again, for non-government organizations on the insurance side of our program, normally they...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The $7.6 million mentioned in my budget address is starting in 2004-05 and moving forward from there, slightly escalated going forward. If we are to meet the target that we had hoped to get, you would have to add another $18 million to that. That is what we feel would have been the number based on our adequacy arguments. That is why we say we are $18 million short of that. We worked, again, with the federal Finance and meeting with the federal Minister, Mr. Goodale. We are hoping to have an agreement by the end of March, and there was some commitment to try to...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Liquor Commission revolving fund shows the liquor sales income, so the cost of product, the increase of our mark-ups shows here. What you see on the bottom of the page, you’ve got your income, your operating expenses and then a surplus. What goes back into general revenues falls under page 3-22 and it shows it going into general revenues from Liquor Commission net revenues. The amount under surplus, the $20.853 million goes back into general revenues.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am aware of the problems in the area of records of employment. I have, in fact, dealt with a number of cases that have come across my desk. It is something that I have asked the staff to look at in trying to shorten time frames and meet our requirements. Part of the problem is that each department in the regions and communities have that information and have to initially put out the forms and send them into our department. So we are going to be working on trying to improve that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That is a difficult area. Insurance, to start with, there is a savings there of $1.26 million because of the premium amount we've managed to reduce. But by doing that, we've increased our potential loss just because we're going to pay the first $10 million deductible in that area. We feel that by developing this risk loss area of $330,000 that we can ensure that we don't have a substantial amount of loss. It's not just a pure exercise saving money that we have to do a first loss assessment to ensure we protect our assets.

The area of short-term interest cost...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, the Member stated a number of correct and obvious things that we, as a government, face on a daily basis as a result of liquor in the Northwest Territories. Even though we do have the ability to restrict liquor in communities -- there are some communities that are dry and don’t allow any alcohol -- that still doesn’t prevent individuals from finding a way to bring the product in to the communities and sometimes at great risk. They will travel many miles by boat or snow machine to find the product and bring it back into their communities, so they can have access...