Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Finance, also regarding capital investments in the communities. In my Member's statement, I stated that the process has to be fair and transparent and balanced. As one of the tools to ensure that, I have been trying to look at utilizing historical spending. It has been very difficult to follow how and where the dollars have been spent in terms of when you break it down by constituency. Today, we had a Member state that Yellowknife was falling behind in terms of line up for capital spending. I could see why that belief is there because when you look at accounting, certain projects do not fall into the community they are constructed in. We have, for example, the grader; a grader has been purchased for Enterprise but has only been used for the territorial highway instead of counted as part of Enterprise's budget. But, a $50-million jail in Yellowknife is not counted as part of that community's spending. Let the Minister explain to me how the accounting is decided. Thank you.
Michael McLeod on Question 30-14(6): Balanced Approach To Capital Spending
In the Legislative Assembly on February 17th, 2003. See this statement in context.
Question 30-14(6): Balanced Approach To Capital Spending
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 16th, 2003
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