Thanks, Madam Chair. Wow. That's a lot of money. Forty point four million dollars a year that we're shortchanging our community governments and we have a mandate commitment to help reduce that by $5 million. Not terribly ambitious, in my point of view. I was in the last Assembly. I know the work that went into the municipal funding gap review. There were GNWT people on it; there was NWTAC; there were people from the tax base communities, the non-tax base communities. There was a lot of work that went into that, too. Try to move us away from a per-capita funding formula to something that's more evidence-based and needs-based. We've got to change the policy that's in place. The question for the Minister is: all we're going to achieve in four years is to reduce the funding gap by $5 million when it's actually $40 million? We can't get a little more ambitious than that? Thanks, Madam Chair.
Kevin O'Reilly on Committee Motion 43-18(3): Tabled Document 181-19(2): Capital Estimates 2020-2021 - Health and Social Services - Deferral of Department (page 29), Carried
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Committee Motion 43-18(3): Tabled Document 181-19(2): Capital Estimates 2020-2021 - Health and Social Services - Deferral of Department (page 29), Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
October 28th, 2020
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