Daryl Dolynny

I thought we were on a roll here, but it seems at a little bit of an impasse. Some of the things that I can introduce to the Minister are simply just indexing what we’re giving annually to this society so we can actually increase with the cost of living.

As I mentioned earlier, CKLB is a Timex watch working in a digital age. Therefore, I’m recommending that the proper funding be provided to assist northern and Aboriginal broadcasters with, specifically, capital equipment replacement costs.

Can the Minister tell me what he’ll do to support this initiative?

Madam Chair, I’m a bit confused here. Are we talking about the rate increases that everyone here is much aware of? The public at large, we’re very much aware. There was three years of a 7 percent increase and, I believe, year four of a 5 percent increase. Are we referring to those increases from the Public Utilities Board?

Does committee agree we’ve concluded consideration of Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 1, 2014-2015?

Bill as a whole.

Thank you, Madam Chair. As much as this motion is simplistic in design, its lack of performance, I believe, has caused the complexity that we see here before us today, and I think that was echoed loud and clear through the Auditor General’s findings.

Moreover, I think members of this committee and I think the public at large are still quite perplexed that there was no reporting function, which is a statutory requirement of the department on this child and family services area, for well over a decade.

Again, without that information, it’s very confusing and a bit daunting that a department is...

Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment, operations expenditures, corporate management, not previously authorized, $120,000; minerals and petroleum resources, not previously authorized, $250,000; energy, not previously authorized, negative $800,000. Total department, not previously authorized, negative $430,000. Does committee agree?

Thank you. Bill 8 is now ready for third reading. I would like to thank the Minister and Mr. St. Germaine for joining us this evening. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witness. Thank you.

We are going to move our attention again to what was previously agreed on earlier today. We are going to go to consideration of Bill 9, Forgiveness of Debts Act, 2013-2014. I will turn to the Minister responsible for the bill to introduce it. Mr. Miltenberger.

I appreciate the Minister’s response. For my final answer, again, I’m looking for closure on this file. There will be no other supplementary asks for any other budgetary lines that we should expect in committee with respect to any type of funding for demolition of these two schools or any other type of repatriation or costs associated with the new E3 School project as a whole asset cost?

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Okay, committee, we’re on page 15, Environment and Natural Resources, operations expenditures, corporate management, not previously authorized, $91,000; environment, not previously authorized, $500,000; forest management, not previously authorized, negative $82,000; water resources, not previously authorized, $586,000; conservation, assessment and monitoring, not previously authorized, $7,000. Total department, not previously authorized, $1.102 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you, committee. Committee, we’re going to actually defer the clause-by-clause on page 1 until we give consideration to the schedule and if I can draw your attention, committee, to pages 3 to 9 in the bill. Schedule, debts forgiven, total, $648,471.63. Does committee agree?