David Krutko

With regard to the operations expenditure summary I note under contract services you have $423,000. Is there a chance we could get a breakdown of that?

Page 4-23, Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, activity summary, intergovernmental relations, operations expenditure summary, $1.703 million.

Ms. Melhorn.

If we can go back to page 5-32, Finance, information item, Liquor Revolving Fund.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. In regard to the $225,000 that’s given out to the Metis locals, how many Metis locals are there and do we have a list of the Metis locals? I understand there are 24 or 28.

At this time I’d like to ask the Minister if he will be bringing in his witnesses.

Page 5-25, activity summary, office of the comptroller general, operations expenditure summary, $21.679 million.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I too, like Mr. Menicoche, strongly feel that this government has to work with the interested parties regardless if they sign on or not, and we still have to find a compromise, find a middle ground, find an area we can work from. I was hoping that prior to signing we were going on the right track with the protocol agreement being signed, the Premier meeting with the Aboriginal governments in Edmonton and more importantly the Aboriginal groups had an opportunity to look at their different positions. I think because of what has happened, we were all under the impression...

Mr. Chairman, I believe under contracts over $5,000, there are some contracts in there. I am just wondering. So you don’t have any contracts with anybody out in the public service for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to do work on behalf of this government under contract services, or do I have to pull it out of the contracts over $5,000?

We are moving on to page 5-10, information item, active position summary.