Paul Delorey

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I know that there are a number of other loan guarantees out there from the government with respect to the diamond manufacturing industry. Are any of the other loan guarantees secured better than what this one was, or could we be facing the same type of deal here where we have to negotiate a settlement and have to be writing off even more money in interest payments? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

This is terrific news, Mr. Speaker, as this means that there will be very little disruption to the continuity of judicial services provided to the residents of the South Slave.

Mr. Speaker, I, along with my colleague from Hay River South, Mrs. Groenewegen, lobbied very hard to have this position remain in Hay River, and we are extremely pleased that this has come to fruition. I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of myself and all of Hay River to thank the Honourable Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Mr. Charles Dent, and all Cabinet Members for allowing this appointment to...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would certainly encourage the department to do everything they can from internal sources to look at the problem areas in the Liquor Act and see what changes we can make. I know that a lot of the things that are in the Liquor Act now probably would have a lot more impact on residents just if they were enforced. We hear about it on the radio quite often now where they are starting to enforce the Liquor Act a little bit more to establishments that serve alcoholic beverages and that sort of thing. I don’t think we have to go to multi hundred thousand dollar reviews to...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I don’t know if any penalties or fines that are levied ever do have to go through the court before they are paid, but if there was a fine associated with the Liquor Commission that had to go through a court system and there was a fine established, then would it go to general revenues or go back into the revolving fund?

Thank you, Madam Chair. In the area of our fiscal arrangement with Canada on the formula financing agreement, I know that we are in the process of renegotiating that. I don’t know what the timelines are or where we are in finalizing that, but I would like the Minister to tie in…The first bullet is finalizing the discussion with Finance Canada and changes to the formula financing agreement, then the fourth and fifth paragraph deals with providing taxation for formula financing input and resource revenue sharing discussions with Canada and aboriginal governments. There are two bullets that...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Just a few comments. Everybody is tying the opening comments and the budget together. I just wanted to mention a few things. The Minister is right when he says that yesterday was the first step, especially in these initiatives for revenue generating by putting it out there in the budget. It seemed to be accepted fairly well yesterday, I didn’t hear too much in the Great Hall afterwards.

However, I did get about three calls today that are very concerned about the government starting to introduce taxes. As soon as you mention taxes, we can do all of the explaining we...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, do the records of employment all come from FMBS for the Government of the Northwest Territories or do other departments put them out? Do they all come through the same department? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister responsible for the Financial Management Board Secretariat, Mr. Roland. They are to do with my Member’s statement with regard to a record of employment. As I have stated in my Member’s statement, this has gotten to be a bit of a problem. I have received complaints from a number of my constituents now that have experienced this, and the length of time it takes for them to get their record of employment after being employed with the GNWT. I would like to ask the Minister if he is aware of this problem and if there...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wanted to make another comment and I don’t know if it’s totally appropriate on this page. I meant to do it under general comments and I didn’t. One Member was talking about the importance of looking at our Liquor Act and the review of the Liquor Act. I may come from a bit of a different approach than what he says, but I was wondering if the Minister could tell me has there been any money appropriated towards the review of the Liquor Act? You mentioned that it’s a high priority to look at the Liquor Act. How big of a review are we looking at making here? Has there...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just following up on that question where you talk about fines. These wouldn’t be fines that go through the courts then, would they?