Bob Bromley

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Follow-up, Mr. Robert McLeod.

Okay. Apparently the normal procedure is to do general comments first, but I’m quite happy to take a break at this point in time, so that’s what we’ll do. We’ll take a break.

The Committee of the Whole took a short recess.

Thank you. Ms. Woodward.

Minister McLeod.

Okay. We have a number of issues before the committee right now. What is the wish of the committee? Mrs. Groenewegen.

Any further questions on Operations Expenditure Summary? To recap, under Directorate, Operations Expenditure Summary $705,000. Agreed?

Department of Human Resources, Directorate, Operations Expenditure Summary: $705,000, approved.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Motion is in order, not debatable.

Motion carried.

Thank you for those remarks. I'm not necessarily insisting that we have an emergency fuel supply, but I would like to know that the communities have some plan to deal with a complete shortage. Even if they do have an emergency supply, perhaps it won't be enough to get them through a period of time when the oil shortage occurs.

In 1973, of course, we experienced that with gasoline, but now with peak oil, we're on the declining side. We’re on the other side of 50 per cent of the fuel oil availability in the world, so this is a real situation. We're entering sort of a new era, if you will, and...

I’d like to go to Mr. Abernethy next.