David Krutko

How long is the funding for?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I believe this is the perfect opportunity for this government to really put some capital infrastructure in the communities, especially for the smaller communities where they have higher energy costs and higher operating costs. I believe there’s $40 million for basically looking at the green funds that we have in place. So I’d just like to ask the Minister exactly is this government going to also be looking at alternative means of energy in communities, more importantly, in regard to the capital dollars we have elsewhere to assist these communities where we...

Deputy minister.

Thank you. Mr. Yakeleya.

Could the Minister tell me with regard to recoveries, research and development, Building Canada Plan, $264,000, could you give me a breakdown on that? What research is it being spent on?

Page 13-9, Environment and Natural Resources, information item, revenue summary. Questions? Mr. Bromley.

Moving on to page 13-18, grants and contributions, environment, activity summary, contributions, $5.004 million.

Minister of Environment.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In regard to highways, maintenance national parks, the $95,000, what’s that for?

As we all know, some communities are having difficulties with deficits or lack of core staff to ensure they have capacity to do the work to complete these reviews. I’d like to ask the Minister what other resources are there for communities that do not have the capacity in SAOs or people in the communities who can actually physically do the work. Is the government willing to put more resources into those communities so that we can try to meet the deadline of March 31st?