Thank you, Madam Chair. Supplementary Appropriation No. 3, 2002-2003 requests authority for additional appropriations of $9,212,600 for operations expenditures and $1.492 million for capital investment expenditures. Major items included in this request for operations expenditures are as follows:
- $1.7 million to recognize the additional pension expense in 2002-2003 for the Legislative Assembly Supplementary Retiring Allowance Act;
- $4.2 million to clear the accumulated deficit in the petroleum product stabilization fund which is already accumulated in the government's accumulated surplus position;
- $900,000 for the additional expenses to be incurred as the result of a negotiated settlement between the GNWT and the NWT Medical Association for general practitioners and fee-for-service positions.
There is no additional reserve for the requests in this supplementary appropriation. This will result in a projected 2002-2003 operating deficit of $116 million. The major request for capital investment expenditures include:
- $500,000 for the Department of Health and Social Services for additional expenditures required for the Inuvik hospital;
- $335,000 for the Department of Transportation for additional expenditures required for renovations at the Yellowknife airport for new pre-boarding and screening equipment.
These expenditures will be totally funded by the Canadian Air Transport Security Agency. Madam Chair, I am prepared to review the details of the supplementary appropriation document. Thank you.