Agreed. Thank you. Finance, Liquor Revolving Fund, information item. Any questions on page 176?

My apologies; I missed a page. Office of the comptroller general, grants, contributions and transfers, total contributions, $6.778 million from page 174. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I wanted to ask, there’s a great variance in the numbers between 2013-14 actuals and then the main

estimates for 2014-15 and then the estimates for 2015-16. We have $6 million and then $11 million and then back to almost $7 million in 2015-16. Why the very large drop from the estimates in 2014-15 to what we’re estimating in 2015-16? Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Aumond.

Thanks to the deputy minister and, yes, I did remember. I just wanted to make sure that anybody who was looking at numbers would understand the rationale. I’m very glad to see that we have a more reasonable number, so to speak. Where has the extra $4 million gone? I’m presuming it went into general revenues, but could I get that clarified? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Aumond. Ms. Bisaro. You’re finished? Thank you. Mr. Yakeleya.

Sorry, Madam Chair, I thought we were doing 176.

Okay. Office of the comptroller general, grants, contributions and transfers, total contributions $6.778 million.

Office of the comptroller general, active positions, information item. Any questions? Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Just one question here and it’s the text at the bottom of the page. Differences in the amounts are due to accounting policy differences between basically the methods used by the NWT Liquor Commission and

the methods used by the GNWT. That seems a little strange to me.

What page are we on, Madam Chair?

I just called page 175, office of the comptroller general, active positions, information item. Any questions?

Moving on to Finance, Liquor Revolving Fund, information item. Any questions? Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I think the question was probably heard. I would have thought that the methods for the Liquor Commission and the GNWT in terms of accounting would be the same. Perhaps I could get an explanation as to why one of our, sort of, subsidiary organizations doesn’t use the same accounting methods that we do.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Kalgutkar.

Thank you, Mr. Kalgutkar. Ms. Bisaro.

Okay. I’m glad you’ll go check on that, but I guess I struggle to understand how we put a comment like this in our budget and we don’t really know how to explain it. I’ll leave it at that.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate having the ability to come back to this Liquor Revolving Fund. I apologize. Earlier I was ahead of my questions here.

I have to say with a degree of trepidation here, I’m quite confused with this category in terms of how this is being evaluated and the discrepancies, knowing that we’ve gone from a private to a consignment model. I’ve tried to follow the margins, the dollars, the increase in agents’ commissions and, again, in looking at a note regarding the net revenue amounts being mentioned in the notes. Would the department agree to maybe having an interim reporting structure of this Liquor Revolving Fund, let’s say six months into this fiscal year, just so that we can provide some better clarity on the numbers, just because I think there’s best guess being used here? But I’m not comfortable with the process in front of me.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The contracts in Yellowknife don’t come into effect until September, so we won’t see any actuals until probably the end of the fiscal year by the time they go into business and we start seeing what the numbers true up to be.