Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In the whole area of issues that have happened over the year, in regard to this department, you talk about the Keewatin resupply project, that was a political embarrassment. At the end, it was shot down at a cost of some $250,000 to study the thing. All this takes money. You talk about issues such as housing for the Premier, the Ministers, in which there, again, are another political issue. Then, we come down to the selling off of assets, houses and of this government. There again, we are reacting to one issue after another. The reason I ask the question is not because I want to embarrass anybody, but to say, there has to be more accountability put in place. There has to be checks and balances in place to ensure these issues are dealt with before taking some sort of a survey, knowing that these issues are going to be sensitive. We have to look at it, on the one hand we are cutting off peoples' subsidies, grants and communities not having the adequate funding to deal with their water and sewer subsidies. Yet we are still able to dish out $12 million leases. We give people long-term leases on houses. Yet, we are trying to sell ours off. We have all this vacant office space. It is one thing after the other. The reason I ask the question is, there has to be a process in place to make people who make these decisions accountable, not only to this House, but to the people, the taxpayers out there paying these bills. I would like to know if there is anything in place, or this department is doing, where we find ourselves, in regard to all of these matters I have raised here, are there any new guidelines going to be put in place to ensure this does not happen again?
David Krutko on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 16th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 15th, 1998
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