David Ramsay

Thank you, Mr. Neudorf. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Anything further, Mr. Beaulieu?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Ms. Bisaro.

Mr. Yakeleya.

Really quick. I think the money should be going to the regions, to the smaller communities who need the money. But there are businesses there and I think if we directed the money at the businesses instead of other areas where... Some things, yes, you can see the benefit, but other things maybe not so much. I think we need to look at job creation and trying to get this money to do the most work that it can in the small communities. I think the number of 48 percent we can improve on that greatly if we focused our efforts on trying to get that money into businesses’ hands. I’m not for a second...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On the infrastructure investment strategy, I’m just wondering, given the troubles we’ve had with some partners, you know, and I never have said that we shouldn’t partner with or look for partners where it makes sense. I think if you look at the federal government, the City of Yellowknife, the Municipality of Tuk and some others, I mean, we’ve got some good cases where we’ve gone into partnerships with people who have brought something to the table. Mr. Chairman, I’m wondering if the Department of Transportation has learned anything on the partnership they had with the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My apologies. I inadvertently missed a portion of this, so I am going to read it in again.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. When might the Regular Members finally find out from this government what it intends to do with the remainder of that Opportunities Fund?

I don’t want the Minister to be quick to criticize my committee for sitting on this for five months. It’s been a year and these guys have not come up with a plan on the balance of that fund. I’d like to ask the Minister if the decision to lend the $34 million last year changed the way the federal government looks at the fund, now wanting us to book that whole entire fund as debt. I’d like to ask that question.