Thank you. Minister of Finance.
Debates of March 10th, 2022
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Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Caroline Wawzonek Yellowknife South
Thank you, Madam Chair. So again, this -- at the end of the day, it's all -- it's all one budget at the end of the day. But let for -- I just -- I think likely to be an accounting explanation. So let's send it to the accountant if I could, please, Mr. Courtoreille.
Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Courtoreille
Thank you, Madam Chair. When the Stanton project was originally completed, my understanding was that it was originally budgeted under the Department of Finance for that first year of operation. And then subsequently, it was transferred to the Department of Health where it properly resides. Same situation with TASR. This is early days in this P3 project. We just achieved substantial completion last November. It was, as part of the financial closed model, budgeted under Finance just for simplicity, and it's my understanding, and we're talking to Infrastructure now, about how we can move this budget over to Infrastructure where it would likely reside going forward. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Okay, thanks. Yeah, that's all interesting. So just with the Tlicho All-Season Road contract I guess that's out there, with Kiewit and whatever, are there actually any northern performance standards in terms of employment contracting related to the maintenance of the highway now, and is any of that publicly reported anywhere or tracked? Thank you, Madam Chair.
Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Caroline Wawzonek Yellowknife South
Thank you, Madam Chair. So the partner here of course is the Tlicho government. I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of that contract. I might see if deputy minister or Mr. Courtoreille might have a bit more information that we can share on their behalf. Thank you.
Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Courtoreille
Thank you, Madam Chair. And yes, absolutely, there was some performance metrics established as part of the construction of the road. And there -- as part of infrastructure cooperation agreement with the Tlicho government, we also have provisions in that agreement to establish performance metrics for the maintenance of that project as well. Thank you.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you. Are there any further questions from Members under Management Board Secretariat?
Seeing none. Finance Management Board Secretariat, operations expenditure summary, 2022-2023 Main Estimates, $111,894,000. Does committee agree?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you. We will now turn to the Finance, office of the chief information officer, on page 153 with information items on 154, 155. Are there questions from Members? Member for Yellowknife North.
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Rylund Johnson Yellowknife North
Thank you, Madam Chair. You know, in the life of this government, we've seen some improvement to E-services. I believe a lot of the DMV has been moved on there, the healthcare card renewal, the fishing licence, kind of all got under one portal. Some great work, and I would like to thank the department for that. I just bought my fishing licence while I was sitting here to make sure it works. I encourage everyone to do. Remember they end with the fiscal year.
But my question is can the Minister give us an update -- I know this is rolling out in phases of what the next services we can expect to be moved on to the E-services platform, or My Services, whatever it's called. Thank you.
Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Caroline Wawzonek Yellowknife South
Thank you, Madam Chair. I -- there is a staged process for this. I don't know exactly what's coming up next. Other -- well, I know vital statistics is coming up next, Madam Chair. Let me see if the deputy minister might know after that what the next round or set might be. Thank you.
Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Mackay
Thank you, Madam Chair. I don't have that information in front of me right now. I can -- oh, it hasn't been finalized yet what the next one is after vital statistics.
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Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Rylund Johnson Yellowknife North
Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. I hope the office of the chief information officer -- or the chief information officer is listening. I guess to me, the big and giant hurdle here would be the social programs and possibly even some of the information sharing in an online portal. I'm just wondering if there is any possibility of income assistance and housing being brought into My Services as an online forum. I think that would save people a lot of time and a lot of headache to be able to go and do it on a portal similar to the way the card services are. Thank you.
Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Caroline Wawzonek Yellowknife South
Thank you, Madam Chair. Well, Madam Chair, future E-services planning will include an increased focus on internal priority service complexity assessments and service readiness planning with all of the different owners of the information across the GNWT. But anything is possible, Madam Chair.
Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Committee Motion 201-19(2): Tabled Document 561-19(2): Main Estimates 2022-2023 - Industry, Tourism and Investment - Deferral of Department, Carried
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Rylund Johnson Yellowknife North
Thank you, Madam Chair. I know there is, under the office of the chief information officer -- I know part of the chief information officer is kind of an open data plan and hopes to start publishing a lot more of GNWT data in machine readable formats. I note at one point the NWT disabilities policy which required a lot of things to be made in machine readable formats because people who are blind often use them. It was a scanned PDF that was not machine readable. So we got a lot -- a lot of work to do in this area. I'm just wondering if the Minister can give an update on whether there's any money here or any hope of getting an open data portal going? Thank you.
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