Michael Miltenberger

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...

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Kam Lake, that Bill 28, Supplementary Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2014-2015, be read for the second time.

This bill makes supplementary appropriations for infrastructure expenditures for the Government of the Northwest Territories for the 2014-2015 fiscal year. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like speak quickly to the motion and to our responsibility as legislators and our commitment and obligation to the broad, overall fiscal plan for the Government of the Northwest Territories.

The motion is clear, even though I’ve heard everyone who is supporting it has a different interpretation. It doesn’t mean paying people, it doesn’t mean giving money for toothbrushes, it will only be restricted to people who don’t have work and have to get compensated for their wages, but it doesn’t mean cousins, families and those people who aren’t working. There is a whole...

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Kam Lake, that Bill 28, Supplementary Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2014-2015, be read for the third time. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Kam Lake, that Bill 28, Supplementary Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2014-2015, be read for the first time. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, making sure our children inherit a healthy environment that supports traditional lifestyles in a modern economy through the wise use and protection of our natural resources is one of the main goals of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

As you are aware, as of April 1, 2014, ENR took over responsibility for managing water resources in the Mackenzie Valley and inland waters in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region through the administration of the Waters Act and Regulations.

This new legislation gives the Government of the Northwest Territories the authority to make sure...

Mr. Speaker, I have a return to oral question asked by Mr. Dolynny on March 4, 2014, regarding tobacco tax collection and reporting.

Statistics Canada conducts the Canadian Community Health Survey on an annual basis in the Northwest Territories. This survey collects self-reported cigarette consumption and is publically available from a variety of sources, including the Statistics Canada website.

In the Department of Finance, the tax administration section collects tobacco product data as part of the tax collection process. Wholesalers of tobacco products sold to retailers in the NWT report their...