Thank you, Mr. Zoe. My question will be for the Minister of Finance. He should be aware that on November 17, the Government Leader made a statement entitled "Getting Down to Business" in which she commented that, over the past year, her government has tackled an unprecedented deficit and targeted expenditures. The Government Leader's attempt to target expenditures took place during the restraint program announced last year by the Minister of Finance.
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts has tried, on a number of occasions, to find out exactly how much government money was saved by this program, as opposed to the impact it had on the economic environment of the N.W.T. Each time, the Public Accounts Committee has been told that this is still being analyzed by the Financial Management Secretariat and they will not know until that assessment is finished.
My question to the Minister of Finance is, when is his department going to get down to business and complete this analysis of last year's expenditure management program?