David Ramsay

Page 5-17, Finance, activity summary, fiscal policy, operations expenditure summary, $1.267 million.

Mr. Speaker, I’ve got some questions today and suppose I’ll ask them of the Premier. In getting back to my Member’s statement, I wanted to talk about sole-sourcing contracts to former deputy ministers. I’d like to begin by asking the Premier if there is any political direction given from his Cabinet when it comes to sole-sourcing contracts to former deputy ministers. Thank you.

Thank you. Mr. Sergeant-at-Arms. Thank you, Mr. Minister, and if I could just maybe have you introduce your staff for the record.

Page 5-33, Finance, information item, Liquor Revolving Fund, active positions.

I guess it relates to this, too, so I’ll ask it. In that contract registry and reporting system it shows $1.238 million under contracted services. Now, I know there’s only a portion of it that shows up there, but under the operations expenditure listing for the department, that number is $1.224 million. So we’re about $14,000 out, and I’m just wondering why the actuals that show up in the 2008-09 Main Estimates in this book don’t correlate with the contract registry. It’s out by about $14,000, and I’m just wondering why that is.

Page 5-14, Finance, activity summary, deputy minister’s office, grants and contributions, contributions, $37.122 million.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. We’ll open the floor up now for general comments. Or actually, no, Mr. Minister, did you want to bring in some witnesses?

Page 5-30, office of the chief information officer, information item, active positions.

I want to thank the Minister for that. That’s probably the case so I’ll have some more questions as we go here. Thank you.

Page 5-10, Finance, department summary, information item, active positions summary.