Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. Ms. DeLancey.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. General comments. Seeing that we’re finished, we’re going to give the opportunity for Premier McLeod to respond to general comments. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. For that we’ll go to Ms. Ballantyne.

Page 4-21, Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, activity summary, implementation, operations expenditure summary, $696,000.

I do apologize. I said thousand and it should have been millions, which makes my question that much more relevant. I didn’t quite understand that response, but I will look back at Hansard to try to decipher that number.

With prevention and promotion being one of the flagships of this department and the flagships of Cabinet, I can attest that it is also the agreement of Regular Members. Prevention and promotion needs to be looked at. It is disheartening to see that we typically have been spending $6.2 million-plus in this category and now we see a decrease in this fiscal budget, thereby going...

Thank you. Page 8-34, Health and Social Services, information item, lease commitments (infrastructure). Any questions?

Contributions, total grants and contributions, $1.451 million.

Thank you, committee. I’ll get committee to turn back to page 2-7, Executive, department summary, operations expenditure summary, $22.862 million.

Thank you, committee. I would like to thank Mr. Robertson and Ms. Eggenhofer and the Minister for coming today. If I can get the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses out of the House. Thank you.

Welcome back, committee. We are on Department of Finance. We will move over to the Minister of Finance. Mr. Miltenberger, do you have any opening comments?

I don’t understand the direct link between firefighters and firefighting which we do not know and something that we do know. I’ll leave it at that, but I’m going to ask the department moving forward to take a look at this because, again, comparing this to firefighting, these are two different types of entities.

With that, my next question involves the contract services and the details of other expenses. We see a drop from the $5.776 million down to $3.028 million. Can we get an explanation as to that drop? Thank you.