Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Minister responsible for Education, Culture and Employment threw in a challenge to the Ordinary Members to identify where money could be located in the budget in order to direct more of our resources to the area of education. It was interesting to me that the only suggestion or example that the Minister could come up with on the spur of the moment was cutting the meagre money paid to assist seniors with the cost of living in their own homes. The format of our budget is such that the main estimates do not provide a very useful tool in identifying areas where this government wastes money. Yes, Mr. Speaker, the government has had to make cuts and this has impacted almost everyone. Does this government waste money? I question the value of things like a $750,000 Med-Emerg report. I continue to question the value of a $223,000 report on POL privatization. I question the indeterminate and 20-year inflated leases on unoccupied housing units in our communities. I question trips abroad for groups which no report, cost benefit achievement or findings ever get tabled in this House after the fact. I question the prolific use of RFPs for procuring goods and services for which we will never know how much we may have overpaid. I know one group who knows how much money this government wastes and that is our constituents. The phone number here is 1-800-661-0784. Phone and have your MLA raise these issues in this House. We will bring them to the attention of Mr. Dent so that he can use a better example the next time he asks Ordinary Members where he can get more money for the education of our children. Mr. Speaker, on this the anniversary of the death of my father, I wish to wish all seniors of the Northwest Territories happy Valentine's Day.
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