Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Earlier today I spoke about the great work that our youth were doing at our national skills competition, mirroring the similar comments mentioned by the Minister of Education himself, as well, on today’s subject.

There is no doubt that we are very proud of the previous Assembly who continued funding for Skills Canada. I applaud the government of the day for making those commitments, because I believe this is an incredible opportunity for our youth. Being part of it and seeing with my own eyes, with the Minister, the great things that we can do with the money that we give...

Be careful with your use of language, Mr. Hawkins. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is a great day today because we have lots of youth here in the gallery. I want to say hi to everyone up in the gallery.

It was a pleasure attending the 18th Annual National Skills Competition with Minister Lafferty. We attended along with 17 youth. The tireless work of the executive director was Jan Fullerton and other tireless workers of Skills Canada NWT. What we witnessed in Edmonton during this national competition was incredible energy, pride, talent and a lot of passion, an Olympic-style event which made us very proud, especially as the Minister just mentioned...

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. With general comments we have Mr. Moses.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Your fight for Highway No. 7 is duly noted. Moving on with general comments, Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, committee. If we can get the Sergeant-at-Arms to bring in our guests.

Minister Miltenberger, would you care to introduce your guests to the committee members?

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Minister Miltenberger, do you have witnesses you wish to bring into the House?

Agreed. We’ll commence after just a short break.

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I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. We have a number of items to consider here in Committee of the Whole. We have Tabled Document 2-17(3), Commissioner’s Opening Address: Creating the Condition for Success; Tabled Document 17-17(3), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 7, 2010-2011; Tabled Document 18-17(3) Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2010-2011; Tabled Document 19-17(3), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2012-2013; Bill 1, Bill 3, Committee Report 1-17(3), Standing Committee on Government Operations...

Thank you, Madam Chair, and we welcome Minister Miltenberger and his finance team here today and, as well, Transportation. Supplementary appropriations are always a unique animal. As a new Member, it’s a learning curve being a student to the process. I will make my comments brief on at least two of the four items in the supplementary appropriations today, one being the carry-over of $105 million.

As you heard from our previous colleagues, a carry-over of projects is always a grave concern, why we can’t complete them, but we fully understand that there was some territorial-based funding, a large...