Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. It was the mental health review, I believe. Did you wish to comment on that? I believe the last one was a mental health review. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. For the last 20 years or more, Yellowknife residents have been unable to lease land for a cabin or a campsite of their own. Some people have taken matters into their own hands and are now firmly established in the area as squatters. Our Department of Municipal and Community Affairs started to take action to deal with squatters a few years ago. In 2009 MACA placed a moratorium on recreational land leases and began work to develop a recreational Land Lease Policy framework. A consultant was contacted to study the areas around Yellowknife and Inuvik in particular and to...

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. To general comments. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks to Mr. Aumond for that explanation. I guess, I asked whether or not this has been to our benefit or whether it’s to our detriment. Maybe I can get a comment on that. I forget what my other question was so I guess it wasn’t all that important.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Yes, we do. Minister of Finance, do you have witnesses that you would like to bring into the Chamber?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just have a couple of questions with regard to clarifying some of the intent of this particular motion or bill. I understand that it is for short-term debt, short-term borrowing, but I would like to know from the Minister, I have some concerns and I’m sure from the previous questions that the Minister has heard from Members that there will probably be some lack of understanding on the part of our residents with regard to this particular bill.

We talk a great deal about our borrowing limit and our debt, the government’s debt, and the fact that we’re close to our borrowing...

Alright, Members, I call Committee of the Whole back to order. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have another question with regard to Health and Social Services. I share the same concerns that have been raised already with regard to Health and Social Services. Again under Health and Social Services there are some contracts which are paid out 100 percent at the beginning of the year that are fully funded in this interim appropriation and then there are other ones that are paid out a quarter at a time. I’d like to ask the Minister if he could elaborate on which contracts under Health and Social Services are ones that need to be funded 100 percent up front.

I don’t know, Mr. Speaker, the Minister’s gone from a perfect report to one that’s fairly acceptable. I don’t know. We’re going down, not up.

One of the concerns that current leaseholders have expressed is that it’s not the density necessarily that currently exists on the lake but it is the use of the lake, and the addition of, for instance, 35 lots on Walsh doesn’t really contemplate the current use, casual use and day use of people, particularly during the summer but also during the winter. The Minister is talking about density, but we also need to evaluate the use on a daily basis and, in my...

Thanks to the Minister. I think I’m getting a clear picture. Thanks for the explanation. I did have a concern in the Department of Executive, there’s a huge increase from the 2011-2012 budget year to the allocated three-month portion in the 2012-2013 budget year for the directorate under the Executive. I wondered if I could get an explanation as to why this amount for this particular three months of this fiscal year coming up is so much greater than it has been.