Statements in Debates
Thank you, Madam Chair. You know, I'm glad to hear that, and I think asset management planning's important. I think it's a little ridiculous that we require our community governments to do it and we do not have an asset management plan. If you looked at GNWT, we'd be in about step negative 100 of asset management planning; step one being figuring out how much you actually own. But I'm glad we're requiring our communities to do that. Maybe one day we will do it.
I guess I want to go to another issue I have with the way we do our budgeting and see if MACA will comment.
I can go to well, I'm...
That makes me very happy. Wow, I don't even I had a whole line of other questions.
Okay, I guess my next question is this is money provided for capital under the funding formula. I see it's $29 million here. If we were following if we had the money to commit what's in the formula, how much money would actually be here, aka, what's the deficit shortage? Thank you, Madam Chair.
I got a commitment there to find out who's well, some undisclosed amount of money into someone's building that we don't own. But I'm wondering if we can get the commitment that we will publicly tell us what owns this building for the undisclosed amount of money. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Can someone tell me who owns that building, Madam Chair?
Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm just looking at the line item for specialized courts and integrated case management services tenant improvements in Yellowknife. We're making some office improvements for integrated service delivery model. Can I just get a bit more explanation of what that is and what building that's in. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. You know, my hope is that we could find a way to work with each of those people on the specified health condition list. I know there are some very expensive drugs, and there are some people with some very unique circumstances. And we may have to keep some of the conditions. Also I know we may have to revisit the list. There's some confusion to me why cancer's on there if it's insured; what it actually is accomplishing by being on there.
But my other question is the federal government recently announced a federal dental care plan. It was means tested. And I believe there...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I guess the next question is do we know I'm actually somewhat unsure whether this is going to save us money or cost us more money, the switch from a specified list to a means tested model. Do we know how much this current proposal will cost us or save us, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Madam Chair. You know, no one is paying the constituency assistant less than $25 an hour right now, and I guess I'm in favour of this so that no one ever does. You know, hopefully one day in this territory we get to minimum wage of $25 an hour, but. And well, and if inflation keeps up at this rate, we might get there a lot sooner than we expected. But I think we should lead by example, and I don't really see any harm in setting this as at least the bare minimum floor going forward. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yeah, and, you know what, I've read through all of these recommendations and sometimes they're identified as legislative; sometimes clearly we can just do them. Specifically one that caught my eye was the recommendation to allow hospitality rooms in manufacturing facilities. That is if a brewery decides to open, they could be able to sell beer there. I'm just wondering if the Minister could give me a timeline on when this is going to happen, or is this also tied to a legislative proposal? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I spoke to in my Member's statement, the Department of Finance has come forward with a number of recommendations, changes to the Liquor Act. One of the ones I was specifically happy to see was four changes to special occasion permits. These are the permits that, you know, festivals often have to get and special events such as weddings. One was to streamline the process. Another one was to perhaps allow an annual special occasion permit for those events that happen every single year. And another one was to allow, in certain cases, whole site consumption. So not...