Wendy Bisaro

Just a comment here, I guess, in response. To the Premier, I would suggest that you seriously consider making it a public document. We talk about wanting to be transparent, we want to be accountable to residents and so on, and there’s this sort of perception out there, rightly or wrongly, that the government is a great big bureaucracy, and inefficient, and wasting money and time and effort and so on. So this may be one way that we can show NWT residents that, yes, we are actually efficient and these are the things that we’re looking at. Again, it may be an opportunity for us to get something...

What is the budgeted amount annually for the Not Us! drug awareness campaign?

My next question has to do with assets which have been downloaded, so to speak, from GNWT to municipalities. As municipalities have taken over their own control of their communities, many buildings have been devolved from GNWT down to the municipalities. In terms of insurance and risk management of those buildings, do we have any hand in that or is that totally the responsibility of the municipality?

Thank you, Minister. Next on my list is Mr. Moses.

The other thing I wanted to ask here, is I had gathered that the PRO, program review office, has established a work plan. I’d like to know is it an annual work plan or is it a multi-year work plan.

Thank you to the Minister for that. I don’t necessarily need the specifics, but I was looking for what the end goal was. I think the more we can have things available to our residents on-line, it allows people from communities, for instance, who do have access to the Internet. Once we get the Mackenzie Valley fibre optic link up and running, that should make life wonderful for far many more of our residents.

In my view, we need to be transparent and accessible as a government, and I think this is one way that we can show that. Just a comment, but I applaud the department for moving in this...

I appreciate Mr. Aumond’s efforts to try to get rid of “other.” With regard to our GNWT assets, we are responsible for them so we are self-insuring our own assets, but there are always risks when we have assets and the risk of loss. I think there’s a program called Property Impairment Reporting Program for GNWT buildings. Could I get confirmation that that is a program that we use to assess risk on our GNWT assets?

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Page 9-31, Justice, activity summary, corrections, operations expenditure summary, $38.169 million. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you for the explanation. That’s a great way to go with not having to ask for new dollars, but I guess I would encourage the department to make sure that if we don’t find efficiencies, that we do make sure that we expand into all the communities where we don’t have government representation, because it seems to be a very effective method of providing service to our residents.

Just one last question then, and I guess it goes to what the hopes are from the department for getting what stuff do you want to get on-line. What’s your end goal? Is it to have absolutely everything available electronically, or will there always be some stuff that has to be done in person?