The Minister just leads me into sort of my next thought, my next question. I mean, why do we budget on last year’s numbers if we know that we’re going to have demographics that are going to likely cause us to have an increase? So it’s kind of a rhetorical question, I’ve said this before; I have great difficulty in the fact that we establish our original budgets based on numbers which we expect to change and then come back three or four times during the year and say, oh, gee whiz, we need more money. So more of a comment than anything, Mr. Chair.
Wendy Bisaro on Committee Motion 32-16(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 62-16(4): NWT Main Estimates, 2010-2011, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on February 24th, 2010. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 32-16(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 62-16(4): NWT Main Estimates, 2010-2011, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 23rd, 2010
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