Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.

No, we’re not going to start over. We’re doing MACA.

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Minister McLeod, do you have witnesses you would like to bring into the Chamber? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. We’ll treat it as a comment. Thank you very much. Committee, we’re on page 113, wildlife, operations expenditure summary, $15.096 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. For that we’ll go to Mr. Williams.

I see the passion and I hear the passion with the department on this. I applaud the work that the department is doing. I want to say that, for the record, but I also want to say what’s modest for some may be seen as extremely high risk for others. As a Member of this House, I need to make sure that all voices are thought of when we’re doing these large, monumental and paradigm shifts in thinking when it comes to expenditure control and borrowing limits. I do appreciate what I’ve heard, but I’m doing my due diligence, Madam Chair.

As we heard from the Minister – and again this is before...

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger, for those fine closing remarks. I’d like to thank you and your department, as well, for your stewardship. Mr. Campbell, Ms. Craig, thank you for joining us. It’s always a pleasure to have you in the House. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort our witnesses out of the Chamber. Thank you.

Continuing on with committee’s wishes, we will start the Department of Lands. With that, we’ll turn it over to the Minister responsible for the Department of Lands for opening comments, Minister R.C. McLeod.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Deputy Minister Campbell, please.

Thank you, committee. Page 353, Municipal and Community Affairs, active position summary, information item. Any questions?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. With the ECE budget tabled recently, it’s hard not to notice that the balance between forced growth and new initiatives is disproportionately balanced within the department’s budget plans. A question many of us have asked is, how is it possible to initiate such a monumental shift in program design with no new funding such as the Education Renewal and Innovation Action Plan? Moreover, with high school graduation right around the corner, many are still concerned with our territorial student outcomes.

My questions today are for the Minister of Education, Culture and...

Mr. Bromley, we’re actually on page 91. You might be ahead of yourself a little bit on the conservation assessment monitoring. So we’ll just finish page 91 and then we can go back to you if you have more conservation questions.

Page 91, active position summary, information item. Any questions?