Wendy Bisaro

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I wanted to ask a question with regard to the grant for community government funding. It’s the same amount as last year. I believe, although it does say allocated in accordance with the Extraordinary Funding Policy, the last time we asked about this I believe that there really wasn’t a lot of usage of this particular fund. So I’d like to know in ’13-14 how much of the $168,000 was used and maybe if they’ve got the information where it was used, to whom it went. Thank you.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I just have one question and I forgot to ask it earlier and realized it belongs on this page. It has to do with legislation or a legislative agenda as well.

Members have been asking since the 16th when or if MACA will take action on Access to Information and Protection of Privacy legislation for municipalities. The last I understood there was some work that was going on. I believe there was some consultation with communities. Can I get an update on where that is at as well? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’m trying to understand some of the numbers on this page and since they’re new there’s not a lot of information that we have to give us any background. So two questions on this page. Regulatory revenues, I’m comparing it to what was in MACA previously and this is up, I think, maybe $20,000 or so, from what was in the general revenue, regulatory revenues in MACA. So with this one, I guess, I would like to know where these revenues come from, what fees and charges make up this $67,000 and the other question has to do with the lease amount, the lease amount is about $2.4...

Thanks to the DM for that. I appreciate that it’s on the list, but it’s been on the list for about three years now. Is this something that’s going to get solved one way or the other before the end of the 17th Assembly? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just have to follow up on Mr. Bromley’s questions. I got a little confused with the number of Ministers and who is responsible and who is leading and not, and so on. I accept that we will now be the “person” who is at the top and pulling other people in and doing the coordinating, but we have got Fisheries and Oceans at the federal level, we have got AANDC and I forget the third one, and now we have CanNor and the Minister for CanNor, so I am trying to understand how CanNor fits into this equation. Do we now have four federal Ministers that GNWT and the Minister of...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just have a couple of general comments here. I’d like to initially start off and say that the department has done a good job in enhancing the services to residents through the on-line services, which started fairly recently. I was able to re-register my vehicle and did it on a Sunday morning, having a cup of coffee – it was grand – and then received the blank sticker in the mail, I don’t know, a week or so ago and I haven’t put it on yet, but minus 30 is not great for putting them on.

So I hope that the department will take the success of vehicle registration and...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks to Mr. Schauerte for the explanation. I understand, I think it was in the Minister’s opening remarks that the formula for funding community governments is being evaluated. There have been a couple of apparently very productive meetings and I’m very glad to hear that there’s an in-depth look at the formula funding for communities. On this page we have contributions for a number of things. There’s community government funding, there’s then additional funding and then water and sewer funding and recreation funding. So, as the formula for communities is being...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thanks to the Minister. I’d like to ask the Minister, when he does go back to the department, will he please consider the supports that are required in our small communities without an RCMP detachment? I think he’s well aware that without RCMP, things are a little less safe than they are in communities where there is RCMP. Will he look specifically at the safety of women in our small communities without RCMP presence?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a question here with regard to the funding for education authorities, particularly to the two authorities within Yellowknife who, I know, are very prudent in their financial management and have managed to accumulate a bit of a surplus to help them over the requirements for extra staff in September, a program that may need an extra bit of money to carry them through to the end of the school year and so on.

My concern is that over the last week to two weeks I have twice heard the Minister reference the surplus of education authorities, and I would like to know from...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just to follow up on Mr. Bromley’s comments and the Minister’s response before I go into what I’ve got, I’m disappointed that at this point in time we don’t know whether or not we’re going to continue to fund the two pilots that we started in this current budget year. I guess I have to leave it at that. There’s no question there, but I guess I feel really strongly that if these were pilots, we should have known before… One month before the end of the budget year, we should have been looking at evaluating these pilots and determining whether or not it’s going to be ongoing...