Thank you. Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks. I am content with the commitment by the Minister to get that information and share it with me. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. Legal aid services, not previously authorized, $248,000. Does committee agree?

Justice, capital investment expenditures, total department, not previously authorized, $11,649,000. Does committee agree?

Lands on page 20. We begin with corporate management.

Lands, capital investment expenditures, corporate management, not previously authorized, negative $698,000. Does committee agree?

Lands, capital investment expenditures, total department, not previously authorized, negative $698,000. Does committee agree?

Thank you, committee. Does committee agree that we have concluded consideration of Tabled Document 443-18(3), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2019-2020?

Thank you, committee. Thank you to the Minister and the witnesses appearing before us. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses from the Chamber. Thank you to all of the other Ministers that participated in the discussion. Thank you for your patience, committee. We have next agreed to consider Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2019-2020. Does the Minister of Finance have any opening remarks? Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am here to present Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2019-2020. This document proposes an increase of $32.1 million to the 2019-2020 operating budget.

The major items included in these supplementary estimates are:

• $22.1 million for implementation of the 2016-2017 to 2020-2021 collective agreement between the Union of Northern Workers and the GNWT;
• $2.5 million to transfer responsibility to deliver a market housing four-plex in Tulita from the Department of Health and Social Services to the NWT Housing Corporation;
• $2.1 million for the Low Carbon Economy Leadership Fund agreement;
• $1.4 million for homecare, community care, mental health, and addictions;
• $1.1 million for conservation and recovery of the Bathurst and Bluenose East barren-ground caribou herds;
• $1 million for boreal caribou range planning activities under the Species At Risk Conservation Agreement for the Conservation of the Boreal Caribou; and
• $834,000 for the Pan-Territorial Vision for Sustainable Development.

That concludes my opening remarks, Mr. Chair. I would be happy to answer any questions that Members may have. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I understand that you have witnesses that you wish to bring into the House. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses into the Chamber. Minister, would you please introduce your witnesses for the record.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. To my immediate right, I have Mr. David Stewart, who is the deputy minister of Finance and secretary to the FMB. To my left, I have Mr. Jamie Koe, who is the Comptroller General, Department of Finance, Government of the Northwest Territories. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I will open the floor to general comments on the operations expenditures supplementary estimates. Any general comments? Mr. O'Reilly, start it off.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I have a question about what the position of the reserve is with the total of $32.1 million? How much is left in the reserve? Can someone tell me what the reserve was and how much is left if this supplementary appropriation is approved? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Before I go to Mr. Stewart to provide the information, I would like to make a correction. Mr. Jamie Koe is the comptroller general, and he is also moving on to become the deputy secretary to the FMB, and then we will be staffing a comptroller general. I just wanted to add that in. I was still calling him the comptroller general, so I just wanted to correct that. I will go to Mr. Stewart to respond to the Member's question. Thank you. Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Minister. Thank you for clearing that up. Mr. Stewart.

Thank you. Mr. O'Reilly.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. We are going to be in a deficit position with regard to the reserve. What is the impact, then, on our government? Do we have to borrow this money to carry us through the remainder of the financial year? What sort of costs are we looking at if we have to go into short-term debt? Thanks, Mr. Chair.