Bob Bromley

Mr. Krutko, did you wish to go back?

It will be good to see the pattern of updates there. On the biomass side of things, I believe that’s in this section. I believe the department is developing a Biomass Strategy. I have questions about that. Where are we at with our capacity for implementing such a strategy and is that something that’s appropriately talked about in this division? I’ll just start with that.

Moving to detail. We will defer page 11-7, the department summary, Transportation, operations expenditure summary. Does committee agree that we defer?

Thank you. Committee, we are on page 6-17. Activity summary, Municipal and Community Affairs, public safety, operations expenditure summary, $1.112 million. Agreed?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just looking at the cost of operations and maintenance and capital investment planning and so forth in this division, many of the things are energy related, ultimately, and I know Arctic Energy Alliance, in their attempts to assist with community energy plans, have hit a bump in the road when they try to collect fuel consumption information. I know this is collected routinely by MACA annually from service providers and from community governments, and I believe the plan was that they were to provide this information to the Arctic Energy Alliance to assist with the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I’d like to take this opportunity to take stock on where we are in our achievement of the principles of consensus government. Last summer we renewed our commitment to consensus government with the approval of the guiding principles for consensus government in the NWT. On Friday past, the Minister of Finance raised the principles as a foundational document of this government and reminded us of our agreement and dedication to them.

Mr. Speaker, we worked hard as a Caucus to develop these principles, because of serious concerns with the health and integrity of...

Committee agree?

Total grants and contributions, $65.978 million.

That is correct, Minister. I believe we are under, Mr. Krutko’s, program delivery details at the bottom.

I’m just wondering what the process is. Obviously, this is something that MLAs should be able to help out with and I would think we’d be willing conduits to help get the application information out there to our constituents and organizations, community organizations. I’m just wondering what is the process that organizations should know about.