Mr.

Chairman, I stand

corrected. Their share is $190,000.

The breakdown — and I might as well give this to Members — was based on the percentage of the drawdown. For the departments that had the larger amounts of drawdown through the exercise over the year, we looked at that drawdown and applied it to the $15 million figure. For example, Executive Offices got $77,000; Human Resources, $800,000; Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, $54,000; the Financial Management Board Secretariat, $225,000; the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation, $133,000; Finance, $57,000; Municipal and Community Affairs, $168,000; Public Works and Services, $1.381 million; Health and

Social Services, $6.137 million; Justice, $1.362 million; Education, Culture and Employment, $2.464 million; Transportation, $1.61 million; ITI, $190,000; and Environment and Natural Resources, $342,000, for a total of $15 million.

As I stated earlier, those numbers don’t compare in a straight-across comparison because the drawdown in the supplementary appropriation over the last number of years has been significantly higher. We felt that on a percentage of drawdown, applying it in this way would allow departments to do the proper planning as we go forward.

As Members are aware, we’ve also set a 3 per cent growth rate, a 3.5 percent total growth rate of government expenditures over the next cycle of our business planning. We’re going to have to sit down and go through that business plan to see if we can in fact meet that target.

Thank you for all of that information. It’s very good. As I said, I liked the plan you put in with respect to distributing that money amongst the departments so they could plan for it accordingly.

No real question, but just a bit more of a statement. In the case of this particular item, as an example, it is something, in my opinion, that should have been able to be planned for. We’re probably going to approve it today. I see no reason not to approve it at this point, giving the department some credit, given the fact that the budget just came down and this is a new process.

In the future, as Cabinet comes to us with some of these supps where they’re asking us to draw down on that $10 million, it may not pass as easily, because we want to be sure that those items that are coming to us in the supps are in fact for emergencies: things that could not be nor would ever have been foreseen or planned for. That’s what we understood the intention was. If items come to us that clearly could have been planned for, we’ll definitely have a lot of questions on those areas, but in this case, due to the timing, not so much. I mean, it is our job to hold the government to account, so the plan was for emergencies. This doesn’t strike me as an emergency. In the future you’ll have to demonstrate to us why this one is an emergency if you’re going to expect us to put down our emergency $10 million fund.

Mr. Chairman, the plan we put in place will require discipline, and this process is a part of that. We would again look forward to trying to make sure we stick to the rules of the new way of doing business. Every supplementary appropriation would come before the House, and departments would have to stand the scrutiny, of course. We would use the same level of measure

before even putting it into this document for Members to see.

It will require discipline. It's different from the traditional practice, and we're going to try hard to maintain that. It's going to be quite a jump from previous years' supplementary appropriation. From well over a $50 million drawdown — that's not the actual number; it was over that, but I would have to get that detail — to where we are now is a substantial change. We're going to have to work hard to live within that.

Total Department, not previously authorized: $622,000.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No.

1, 2008–2009, Industry, Tourism and

Investment, Total Department, not previously authorized: $622,000, approved.

Environment and Natural Resources, Operations Expenditure, Corporate Management, not previously authorized: $305,000.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No.

1, 2008–2009, Environment and Natural

Resources, Operations Expenditures, Corporate Management, not previously authorized: $305,000, approved.

Total Department, not previously authorized: $305,000.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No.

1, 2008–2009, Environment and Natural

Resources, Total Department, not previously authorized: $305,000, approved.

Moving on to page 11. Executive, Capital Investment Expenditures, Human Resources, not previously authorized, Employment Relations: $70,000.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No. 1, 2008–2009, Human Resources, Executive, Capital Investment Expenditures, Human Resources, Employment Relations, not previously authorized: $70,000, approved.

Total Human Resources, not previously authorized: $70,000.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No.

1, 2008–2009, Human Resources, Total

Human Resources, not previously authorized: $70,000, approved.

To page 12. Executive, Capital Investment Expenditure, Financial Management Board Secretariat, Directorate, not previously authorized: $4.77 million.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No. 1, 2008–2009, Executive, Capital Investment Expenditures, Financial Management Board Secretariat, Directorate, not previously authorized: $4.77 million, approved.

Total Financial

Management Board Secretariat, not previously authorized: $4.77 million.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No.

1, 2008–2009, Executive, Total Financial

Management Board Secretariat, not previously authorized: $4.77 million, approved.

Total Executive, not previously authorized: $4.84 million.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No. 1, 2008–2009, Executive, Total Executive, not previously authorized: $4.84 million, approved.

Municipal and Community Affairs, Capital Investment Expenditure, Regional Operations, not previously authorized: $5.646 million.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No.

1, 2008–2009, Municipal and Community

Affairs, Capital Investment Expenditures, Regional Operations, not previously authorized: $5.646 million, approved.

Total Department, not previously authorized: $5.646 million.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No.

1, 2008–2009, Municipal and Community

Affairs, Total Department, not previously authorized: $5.646 million, approved.

Moving on to page 14. Department of Public Works and Services, Capital Investment Expenditure, Asset Management, not previously authorized: $431,000.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No. 1, 2008–2009, Public Works and Services, Capital Investment Expenditures, Asset Management, not previously authorized: $431,000, approved.

Technology Service

Centre, not previously authorized: $440,000.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No. 1, 2008–2009, Public Works and Services, Technology Service Centre, not previously authorized: $440,000, approved.

Petroleum Products, not previously authorized: $1.293 million.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No. 1, 2008–2009, Public Works and Services, Petroleum Products, not previously authorized: $1.293 million, approved.

Total Department, not previously authorized: $2.164 million.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No. 1, 2008–2009, Public Works and Services, Total Department, not previously authorized: $2.164 million, approved.

Moving on to page 15. Health and Social Services, Capital Investment Expenditure, Program Delivery Support, not previously authorized: $2.38 million.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No. 1, 2008–2009, Health and Social Services, Capital Investment Expenditures, Program Delivery Support, not previously authorized: $2.38 million, approved.

Health Services

Programs, not previously authorized: $11.696 million.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No. 1, 2008–2009, Health and Social Services, Health Services Programs, not previously authorized: $11.696 million, approved.

Community Health

Programs, not previously authorized: $6.699 million.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No. 1, 2008–2009, Health and Social Services, Community Health Programs, not previously authorized: $6.699 million, approved.

Total Department, not previously authorized: $20.775 million.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No. 1, 2008–2009, Health and Social Services, Total Department, not previously authorized: $20.775 million, approved.

Moving to page 16. Justice, Capital Investment Expenditure, Courts, not previously authorized: $670,000.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No.

1, 2008–2009, Justice, Capital Investment

Expenditures, Courts, not previously authorized: $670,000, approved.

Community Justice and Corrections, not previously authorized: $582,000.

Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act,

No. 1, 2008–2009, Justice, Community Justice and Corrections, not previously authorized: $582,000, approved.