Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, committee. Page 312, services to government, grants, contributions and transfers, total grants, $9,000. Does committee agree?

Thank you, committee. Page 255, active position summary, information item. Any questions?

Thank you. Page 294, community justice and policing, grants, contributions and transfers, total contributions, $2.169 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you, committee. I’d like to thank our witnesses today here, Ms. Haener and Ms. Schofield. Thank you for joining us and, of course, the Minister. If I could get the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses out of the House. Thank you.

Thank you, committee. We’re going to continue with our main estimates here. We’re going to continue with Industry, Tourism and Investment. With that, we’ll turn it over to the Minister responsible for opening comments. Minister Ramsay.

Thank you, committee. Page 278, tourism and parks, grants, contributions and transfers, total contributions, $5.258 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you. I do appreciate the Minister’s work on the ECD plan and I’ll be looking very favourably at those numbers in due course. Ironically imbedded in today’s statement the quote is “These iPads are the techno baby bags of the future.” Now, I have to smile a little bit because the words “baby bags,” it’s well documented within ECE that there’s been a lot of year-end splurging in the past of baby bags, getting rid of budget dollars near the fiscal, March 31st, year-end.

Can the Minister indicate to the House, is this just another splurge technique to get rid of funds? Thank you.

Thank you, committee. Page 309, policing services, operations expenditure summary, $44.573 million. Does committee agree?

Is committee prepared to go to detail?

Seeing none, thank you. Page 291, active position summary, information item. Any questions?

Thank you, committee. Committee, if I could get you to return to page 289, department totals. Justice, department totals, $128.797 million. Does committee agree?