Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, my question is for the chairman of the Financial Management Board. Madam Speaker, last Friday, the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment told the House that the formula for allocating the Canada/NWT infrastructure agreement was negotiated by the Financial Management Board Secretariat. I was wondering if the chair of the Financial Management Board could confirm that the FMBS did in fact develop a formula.
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In the Legislative Assembly on October 26th, 1994. See this topic in context.
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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell
Thank you. Minister of Finance, Mr. Pollard.
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John Pollard Hay River
Thank you, Madam Speaker. Good afternoon. Madam Speaker, it was negotiated by the Department of Finance for the Government of the Northwest Territories. Thank you.
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Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Dent.
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Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake
Thank you, Madam Speaker. Supplementary, to the Minister. Can the Minister confirm that the formula was; the number of unemployed people in a given community, divided by the number of unemployed people in the Northwest Territories, multiplied by the total amounts of funds available for all communities, except those who are the cap or the floors? There is a cap, I understand, of $1 million in one community and floors of $25,000 and $50,000 in other communities. Would the Minister confirm if that was the formula used throughout the territories?
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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell
Thank you. Minister of Finance, Mr. Pollard.
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John Pollard Hay River
Madam Speaker, it was allocated using not employed by community, divided by not employed by NWT, multiplied by the $3.5 million. Not employed refers to the count of persons 15 years of age and over who were not employed at the time of the 1991 Census and final allocations were then adjusted based on the results of the 1994 NWT labour force survey. Then, the final allocation of the total amount available for the program was also adjusted so that the maximum share allocated to a community is $500,000, the minimum share allocated to a community is $12,500 in communities with less than 100 persons 15 years of age and over, and $25,000 in communities with 100 persons or more 15 years of age and over. Thank you, Madam Speaker.
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Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Dent.
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Supplementary, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, that was my understanding of the formula, so I sought out the 1994 labour survey numbers and picked a few communities just to see whether or not the formula actually worked. I found that, according to that formula, Rankin Inlet
should have received $235,291. But, my understanding is Rankin received $314,684.
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Some Hon. Members
Shame, shame.
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Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake
Another community I picked was Baker Lake. Baker Lake, according to the formula and my understanding of it, should have received $299,290 but it received $325,071.
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Shame, shame.
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Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake
There are other examples. Another one that really stands out, Madam Speaker, is Hay River. Hay River should have received $572,227 but it only got $473,553; a shortage of almost $100,000.
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Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake
Madam Speaker, I don't understand how this formula works. I'm not a great mathematician, but I can take the formula I was given, take the numbers that were supplied by the Department of Statistics and when I do the multiplication, it doesn't work out. Can the Minister explain to me how to make these numbers match with the allocations?
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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell
Minister of Finance, Mr. Pollard.
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John Pollard Hay River
Madam Speaker, what I will do is ask the Department of Education and the Department of Finance to get together and actually come up with a working document so that we can see how each community was calculated, and I will draw that to the attention of this House by tabling those documents in the House, Madam Speaker. Thank you.
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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell
Thank you. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Baffin South, Mr. Pudlat.