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Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Mr. Aumond.
Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 75-16(2), Supplementary Appropriation No. 2, 2008–2009, and would like to report that consideration of Tabled Document 75-16(2) is concluded, that the House concurred in those estimates and that an appropriation bill to be based thereon be introduced without delay.
Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.
Once again it sounds like we are still moving forward on things that we have already done and talked about. I don’t see any new roads being built to increase access, seasonal access, all season access, to roads.
One of the things that we’ve heard out in the streets to actually help reduce the cost of living are things like milk subsidies. I don’t see the cost of living committee coming forward….
I don’t actually see that many programs or services that are geared to actually reducing the cost of living for the vast majority of residents. Once again subsidies are for people who can’t afford the...
Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.
Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Mr. Beaulieu?
Interjection.
Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.
Health Services Programs, Not Previously Authorized: negative $5.432 million.
Department of Health and Social Services, Capital Investment Expenditures, Health Services Programs, Not Previously Authorized: negative $5.432 million, approved.
The motion is on the floor to report progress. The motion is in order. It is non-debatable.
My question is for the lead Minister responsible for the strategic initiative committee on reducing the cost of living. As I indicated in my Members’ statement, there has been a continued reference to $140 million in subsidies to reduce the cost of living in the NWT.
I believe that these subsidies don’t actually reduce the cost of living; rather, they just make it possible for residents who are struggling to meet their basic needs. So for the Minister responsible: can the lead Minister please identify some of the initiatives the cost of living committee has considered that will actually...
Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Miltenberger.