Daryl Dolynny

Thank you. Bill 9 is now deemed ready for third reading. I’d like to thank the Minister. I will turn it over to Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The committee felt quite strongly to include the series of motions in its format. We’ve just heard a recommendation from the Minister to do something maybe of a streamline in nature. This is something that we’d have to take back to committee for review, but again, the motion speaks for itself and it stands. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. I will turn to Minister Miltenberger and ask if he has any witnesses he would like to bring into the House.

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.