Robert Bouchard

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Moses. Mr. Minister, would you like to bring witnesses into the House?

Thank you, Mr. Blake. Minister Miltenberger.

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. We have agreed to consider Bill 6, An Act to Amend the Medical Care Act.

I will ask the Minister responsible to introduce the bill. Minister Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m going to follow up with some questions on the Heritage Fund that I had earlier. We discussed the issue of the 25 percent to Aboriginal groups, we discussed 25 percent to the Heritage Fund. I’m just wondering if the Minister can give me the information on the other 50 percent that we are not allocating those funds in the 2014-15 budget because the money does not flow until ‘15-16.

Is committee agreed that Bill 6, An Act to Amend the Medical Care Act, is ready for third reading?

I guess one of the confusions, then, is that we’re booking the revenue, we’re booking the expenses for the Aboriginal groups for the 2014-15 budget.

Can the Minister explain those if we’re not expecting them until the 2015-16 budget?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. If committee is agreed there are no further general comments, we will proceed to a clause-by-clause review of the bill. Clause 1.

---Clauses 1 through 4 inclusive approved

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. With the Minister of Finance’s announcement today, I can throw away this speech, I guess, a complaint about the Heritage Fund not being funded 25 percent. I commend the Cabinet and the Premier for making this bold decision for the future generations of the Northwest Territories.

Twenty-five percent is a substantial amount. It’s an amount that actually provides an amount of money of these non-renewable resources that we’re taking from this territory, giving it to the future generations for capital infrastructure, for paying down debt, exactly what we told the people of...