The Member has to keep in mind what we collectively agreed would be the role of the government and the Legislature through the course of the last number of years through this economic downturn; the worst, as I like to say, since the Great Depression. We’ve managed our way through this, we have kept our expenditures where they were, we didn’t lay off folks, we invested a billion dollars in infrastructure because we knew we had to step into the gap as the private sector struggled, as the private sector revenues dropped. As we’ve seen today, the fallout is still with us with the drop in corporate income tax. We realized and took it upon ourselves to play that stabilizing role. Now it’s time, like every other government across the land and across the world, to look at managing the budgets, the fiscal situation, so that we don’t mortgage our future. We’ve started to do that. Two percent growth net of compensation is, I would suggest, over time, if you look back, a significant decrease when the average rates of growth were 4 or 5 percent and health was growing at 8 or 9 percent.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 364-16(5): Efficiency Review Of The GNWT
In the Legislative Assembly on February 3rd, 2011. See this statement in context.
Question 364-16(5): Efficiency Review Of The GNWT
Oral Questions
February 2nd, 2011
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