Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, committee. Page 384, sport, recreation and youth, grants, contributions and transfers, total grants and contributions, $4.987 million.

Page 373, regional operations, operations expenditure summary, $83.372 million. Does committee agree? Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, committee. We will defer page 325 until after consideration of activity detail. I’d like to turn your attention to page 326, revenue summary, information item. Any questions? Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. For that we’ll go to Deputy Minister Williams.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Minister Abernethy. Continuing on with general comments, I have Mr. Moses.

Thank you. I’m disappointed that the Minister would use scare tactics such as let’s just raise the price of tickets for passengers, let’s raise the prices for the airlines themselves. This is preposterous. These scare tactics are just being used to camouflage what I consider poor management, bottom line. We as a government have a responsibility to be better managers and not use scare tactics.

Can the Minister indicate to the House in the wake of almost every other airport of similar volume and size in Canada developing independent authorities, why is the Yellowknife Airport being held back for...

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. We’re just going to circulate this motion. One second.

Committee, the motion is on the floor and the motion is in order. To the motion. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Minister Abernethy. Ladies, thank you for joining us here today. Committee, we’ll open up Bill 38 with general comments. Ms. Bisaro.