Michael Miltenberger

Mr. Chairman, my understanding is that they will be loaded up and given along with all the other accoutrements that go with the things we provide to new parents. That will be part of that package that they get. It will be from there, and henceforth their iPad. Thank you.

Yes, Madam Chair, it did.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Clearly, the Member and I would not want to engage in that type of discussion in the House, so if the Member would share that information with us, we would make sure it gets forwarded on to the Housing Corporation to be tracked down and sorted out. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Health and Social Services, working with ECE, will be looking at loading up the tablets with all the appropriate programs and apps that allow people to tie into all these programs and services that the government does provide.

As I was sitting here listening to the debate, if I just may digress for one second, about 10 years ago ECE entered into a multi-year contract with the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation to cover the Northwest Territories, which they did with going in all the communities trying to set up virtual libraries. It was a two- or three-year arrangement...

Thank you, Madam Chair. We’ll be reporting through this in the business planning process, and we can provide updates to committee as often as they’d like.

The issue of the trust factor is somewhat worrisome when we’re talking about… We’re spending $1.6 billion. We sit in this House and we lay out the plans, we give our commitments, and then we’re now asked on this particular fund, how can we be trusted to do what we say we’re going to do. Because this is our job and we’re going to be before this Assembly and we’re accountable to the Assembly and we’ll provide you that information. Plus, we have...

Yes, Mr. Chair.

This supplementary request of $114,000 has triggered a policy discussion that would probably best be held at another time. I wouldn’t confirm that the De Beers books have stickers on them. God forbid that they have stickers on them. The policy discussion, maybe it can be agreed that we do want to have that debate about is there a prescribed list, what are we going to accept as brandable and whatnot, and what activities, what actual physical objects, and have that discussion. I don’t know if we’re going to resolve it here today, but clearly some of the Members have a problem with that...

The funding is split into two categories for transition and implementation. The transition phase is the time between the signing of the AIP, and the final agreement was allocated $4 million of the $26.5 million. Total implementation phase is the time between the final agreement and April. It was allocated $22.5 million and that money is continuing to be expended.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have with me Mr. Warren St. Germaine, the assistant deputy minister and comptroller general, Department of Finance.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. From what I understand, we’ve been doing this through practice and convention on a case-by-case basis, that there is no clear delineated policy on corporate sponsorship. We’ve been doing this for decades literally, especially when it applies to things like the Arctic Winter Games, when we have events where we have sponsorships, sponsors that put money in and we share the brand with them. We have a way that we’ve worked out to do that. So this is something that is upon us from all quarters, and we have been, in fact, pushing partnerships across the board and this is...