Robert Bouchard

Thank you, Deputy Minister. Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, Minister Ramsay. Committee, page 9-35, activity summary, services to public, operations expenditure summary, $5.111 million.

Thank you, Ms. Haener. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, committee. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Minister Ramsay.

Thank you, Deputy Minister. Mr. Bromley.

It’s not getting any cheaper. It is something we were interested in seeing, I guess. Is the department going to continue to analyze it? When do you think you will have that analysis complete? When would we be able to look at what the net costs are of doing that?

I wonder what the impediments are having an authority like this outside of the GNWT. What difficulties are we experiencing? There is a cost to that pension, but there is also maybe a cost or a difficulty in operating one authority that is stand-alone and the remainder of them under the GNWT umbrella.

I am just wondering if we’ve used any professionals such as an actuary to look at those actual costs.

Thank you, Madam Chair. A couple of quick questions about the Hay River Health Authority and the positions there. If the department could give me a little more detail and discussion on the union there. They are obviously not a union of ours, but they are highly interested. Have we been having discussions with them about including them in our union? It seems like it’s difficult and inconsistent with this authority versus all the other ones.