Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to just speak to this motion as well. The public accounts include all of our arm’s-length entities. It includes our Crown corporations. It includes our health authorities. It includes our education authorities. There are many, many authorities which complete the consolidated public accounts. We have all the government departments and then we have all the other authorities. Some of those authorities have a fiscal year end which is June 30th , and that makes it rather difficult for the

government to get the consolidated public accounts done by August 31st , which was what I was

referencing earlier; however, they’ve done a very good job of doing that.

In each of the two years that we’ve gone through the public accounts, there have been entities which have not met their statutory deadline for reporting or for having their audit done, so we wanted to make sure that that was noted. In this past year there was one entity, and it was the NWT Housing Corporation, who did not meet their deadline for the completion of their audit. That certainly was an improvement over the previous year when we had rather more than that. I can’t remember exactly how many. But we feel, as a committee, that any entity that does not meet their deadline for their audit should be reflected in the public account so that if somebody in the public wishes to go to the public accounts and see how various entities are doing they can see that, oh, yeah, last year the Housing

Corporation didn’t meet their deadline for their audit. Sorry, Minister, but there it is.

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