Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Ms. Craig. Mr. Bromley.

There is a feeling that the phasing out of the Alberta Achievement Test was a direct response to the continued low scores year after year in some of our smaller communities and that any new standardized test will only camouflage the real issues facing these struggling students.

How can the Minister guarantee that any new tools in standardized testing will be equally representative for all northern students?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Blake. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister Miltenberger.

Seeing none, page 97, corporate management, operations expenditure summary, $14.113 million. Mr. Bromley.

Great. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Last Saturday, on February 21, 2015, I had the privilege of emceeing while Yellowknife played host to the 9th Annual Memorial Hockey Challenge in which our fire department and our RCMP squared off in a good old-fashioned hockey game.

This annual event honours their colleagues, Yellowknife firefighters Cyril Fyfe and Kevin Olson and Hay River RCMP officer Chris Worden, who lost their lives while in service.

I am pleased to say that my legislative colleagues MLA Alfred Moses, MLA Robert Bouchard, Minister Glen Abernethy, Minister Dave Ramsay and Premier Bob McLeod...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to welcome the Department of Transportation here today and specifically Mr. Auger for joining us for his last tour. He will be missed, for sure.

Mr. Chair, really in no particular order, there will be a number of things I will be bringing up in general comments and some of those I will be re-emphasizing in detail.

To the Minister’s opening comments: what caught my attention in terms of something that I applaud as being noble, but when I look at the expenditure and what they are spending money on, I had to question the validity; and that is the $163,000 to...

Even if we’re using the term “stabilization,” it’s still a form of a hedging because we’re balancing out those prices. Should this hedging concept produce even greater savings per litre with a new summer bulk purchase program and should fuel prices remain the same or stabilize, does the Minister see further reduction of the price per litre being passed on to the residents in these communities? Thank you.