Jane Groenewegen

Okay. Page 3-18, active positions, human resource strategy and policy, information item.

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole back to order. We are on general comments on the main estimates. Next I have Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Miltenberger, would you like to go to the witness table and call your witnesses?

Okay, I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. We have the budget document in front of us, Tabled Document 3-17(3), Northwest Territories Main Estimates 2012-2013. What is the wish of committee? Mr. Menicoche.

Again, I think that the people of the Northwest Territories will take heart with that response that the Premier just provided. I don’t condone or support our government throwing money out there, either, kind of willy nilly and hope it hits the right place. So I think that we would need to have a process whereby we could make a case, we could get the support of our colleagues, we could make a case, we could make the pitch and the onus would be on us to a large extent to show that there’s continuity and there should be accountability structures. So how soon do you think we could have this...

Thank you. Any further general comments? If not, is the committee agreed that we should move to consideration of the Department of Human Resources?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. May I dare say that occasionally Members on this side of the House have a really good idea, and there are many small things in our communities that this government could fund, which would make a huge difference, but we can’t be told no, we have no money, and if you do want that money, find out where you can cut something. We do not have the resources at our disposal to identify where those funds are.

Let me just give you a couple of examples. In Hay River, recently in just talking with people, the youth centre needs a piece of land, the youth treatment in a seed group...

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. General comments. Next on the list I have Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Next I have Mr. Moses.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. For general comments, I have Mr. Nadli and then Mr. Moses. Mr. Nadli.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. We’ll continue with general comments and first I have Mr. Yakeleya.