Kevin O'Reilly

Once again, I want to thank the Premier for that. I guess I expected to hear about things like the transition reports, briefing notes that have been left from the previous Ministers, and that kind of thing. Can the Premier tell us what the mechanisms will be for setting the overall direction for each Minister or department, and what role in the process does the Premier see for the Regular MLAs?

Thanks, Madam Chair. Of the $3.5 million, how much is made up of school taxes? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President. In my statement earlier today, I noted that the priorities of the 19th Assembly do not provide clear direction for many of the departments and agencies and Ministers. I would like to know from the Premier whether she agrees with that assessment. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I would like to know what measures or were there any opportunities within MACA or what contingencies did they look at before coming forward with a supplementary appropriation? Were they able to find the money internally? I think the budget of the Department is around $55 million or something. Were there any opportunities to make up the money internally, and what was looked at? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President. The 18th Assembly collectively developed a list of priorities that Cabinet then took and turned into a lengthy wish list. That was the first time that a formal mandate was developed. At the end of the 18th Assembly, Cabinet claimed it had completed 202 of 230 mandate commitments. The advice from the Transition Matters Special Committee was that there should be fewer priorities and fewer mandate commitments. I am not convinced that we achieved that with the priorities that were tabled in this House on October 25th. As this sitting presents the first opportunity to...

Thanks, Madam Chair. Okay. Maybe I can just get the Minister to agree that she will find out what that date was and give me and the Members of this House the chronology of events around this misstep or failure to budget properly for the tax bill from the city. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I think I heard the Minister say that their department was going to look at ways to try to prevent this from happening again. Can the Minister get a little bit more specific about what specific measures the Department of Finance is going to do to make sure that our predictions are better in the future, that we have a better way of collecting money owed to us? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. "Fall of 2019," can we get a little more precision to that? Was it September?

Thanks, Madam Chair, and thanks to the Minister for that. I am trying to reconcile this against the information that was provided to us in the briefing and so on. Can the Minister commit to getting us an actual breakdown of what this MACA supplementary appropriation is actually for by property? I have now heard that it is Stanton Hospital, Norman Wells Hospital, as well as various other Yellowknife properties. That is what not what we heard before. Can I get a breakdown of the exact number associated with each property that makes up the $4.492 million that we are supposed to be approving today...

Thanks, Madam Chair. I appreciate the Minister is new to this file, but I can assure the Minister I sat in the House in the 18th Assembly, and we knew months in advance of the day that the new hospital was going to open on May 26, 2019. That was the scheduled date for months before that, and it must have been known to the Municipal and Community Affairs officials as well. How is it that our system failed to flag this and that the city was going to provide the assessment and that we would have to pay that to the City of Yellowknife? Thanks, Madam Chair.