Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Do you have witnesses you wish to bring into the Chamber?

Page 1-28, activity summary, Legislative Assembly, statutory officers, grants and contributions, contributions, total contributions, $250,000.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Minister Beaulieu.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Minister Beaulieu.

That is again unfortunate news. Not what I wanted to hear. I would urge the department to do some inquiry, particularly within the city of Yellowknife, and determine the number of people who will soon be requiring and needing independent assisted living. It’s an area where the services are generally provided by non-government organizations, but the funding generally comes from GNWT, and I think we’re going to find within the next five years that there’s going to be a huge need for housing these particular individuals and I would ask the Minister if he would commit to look into the situation...

Thank you, Minister. We are on page 5-7, finance, department summary, operations expenditure summary, $142.121 million. We will defer this page until we have done detail. Are we agreed?

Page 5-21, Finance, activity summary, budget, treasury and debt management, operations expenditure summary, $11.567 million.

The motion is carried.

---Carried

We will move to page 13-17. Okay, committee, we are on page 13-17, activity summary, Environment and Natural Resources, environment, operations expenditure summary, $5.936 million. Are we agreed?

Thank you and thanks to the Minister for that clarification. So I have to then ask the Minister if he has been listening to the concerns of the NWT Seniors’ Society and been listening to the concerns of Members, it should be no surprise to him that the Seniors’ Society in particular and Members have supported this.

The Seniors’ Society feels that they have not been adequately consulted. I see nothing in the statement and I heard nothing in the Minister’s answer that suggests that there’s going to be any consultation with seniors in this two-month period. So I’d like to ask the Minister what the...

Thank you, Mr. Moses. Ms. DeLancey.