As Members are aware, we have a very extensive mandate that requires a lot of investment. To meet that goal, we had looked at $150 million. I did speak during the O and M budget session four months ago that it was going to be some short term pain for a longer term gain, and I did commit that the exercise would be over two years, even though there might be a residual effect in years three and four. But could we meet? We would need to have further investment, and we work very closely with our counterparts in Ottawa to try to get further investments. The better position we are in financially, we're able to come up with our cost share dollars of some of the investments. So we are working very hard to try to meet our targets so we can make some more investments into our mandate.
Robert C. McLeod on Question 325-18(2): GNWT Fiscal Reduction Target
In the Legislative Assembly on October 14th, 2016. See this statement in context.
Question 325-18(2): GNWT Fiscal Reduction Target
Oral Questions
October 13th, 2016
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