Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 49-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2012-2013; and Tabled Document 50-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2013-2014, and would like to report progress with two motions being adopted, and that consideration of Tabled Document 49-17(4) and Tabled Document 50-17(4) is concluded, and that the House concur in those estimates and that appropriation bills to be based thereon be introduced without delay. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of...

Thank you, committee. Mr. Menicoche.

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Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Committee, we’re on page 5 of the tabled document, 2013-14, Supplementary Appropriation No. 1, (Infrastructure Expenditures), Transportation, capital investment expenditures, highways, not previously authorized, $60 million, total department not previously authorized, $60 million.

Thanks. Just one last question. How many people are required to construct this road? How many PYs are going to employed over this five-year project? Thank you.

Does the Minister want to guarantee that, on budget? Rhetorical question. Thanks.

So one of the other statements that was made, by either the Minister or the deputy minister, was that geotechnicals will be finalized in the coming months and that’s one of the unknowns for me, and I think it’s one of the unknowns at the moment for the department and for the project. So I haven’t heard it said, in terms of geotechnical, there are concerns from certain Members that the terrain that we’re working in can be very difficult, we’re dealing with permafrost and I’ve heard it said that we are dealing with...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today, as several of my colleagues have done before me, I want to highlight the Electoral Boundaries Commission and the consultations that are currently in progress across the NWT.

The Electoral Boundaries Commission is established every eight years to review our NWT electoral boundaries and ridings. The commission considers the populations of our current ridings and determines if all ridings are equitable. It recommends possible changes to the Legislative Assembly, and the Assembly then debates the issue and does or does not make changes to the NWT Elections Act.

The...

Mr. Menicoche, what is the wish of committee?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are addressed to the Premier. I would like to follow up on the questions that I addressed to the Minister of Health and Social Services yesterday and the concept of policy by commitment. I gave an example yesterday of two statements made in the House by two different Health Ministers referencing a policy which was not written and not part of the Cabinet sanctioned official policy. I would like to know from the Premier, when a Minister makes a commitment in the House, if he could explain to me and explain to Members what kind of weight that carries...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you to the Premier. I wasn’t going backwards. I was referring to the current Assembly. The Premier said that action would be taken. Does that action involve informing the Member that the information in the House is incorrect and advising the Member of what the correct information is?

If a Minister does provide information in response to questions in the House, and the Minister does provide information which is incorrect, and we as Members are advised of something that is incorrect, who is responsible? Will that Member then be advised that the information is correct and will that information then be corrected? Is it the responsibility of the Minister and/or Cabinet to correct it for us?