David Ramsay

I forgot, Mr. Chairman, how fast government moves. I’m sorry. Pardon me, but something like this you would think would be fairly straightforward, it would be easy to get. They probably already have an itinerary, they know who they’ve talked to, they know who the meetings are with, who invited them, who’s going. Just give us that information. That’s not too much to ask. Three days is a long time to me, Mr. Chairman, to be able to get that information. What are we expected to do, just say it's okay? We don’t have any information, but they promised us some and, yes, it’s okay. It just...

Clause 3.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Roland.

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. Motion is in order. It's not debatable. All those in favour? Opposed? Motion is carried.

---Carried

I'll now rise and report progress.

Yes, trying to get her out of town. The interesting thing, Mr. Chairman, is we just haven’t got any detail, any level of detail on who is going, what the itinerary is, who invited us, who we’re seeing, who's going. I think in isolation of that information, it makes it difficult to make a decision. I like to make a decision based on something. I just don’t want to say yes, it’s okay, go ahead. I haven’t seen, like I said, except for an invitation letter, that’s the extent of the information that the government has put forward to our committee and to Regular Members. So to support a trade...

Thank you, committee. Now if we could go back to page 1, Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 2, 2007-2008, to the preamble. Oh sorry; before we deal with the preamble, we’ll go clause by clause. Clause 1.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Minister Roland.

Mahsi, Mr. Yakeleya. Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Like some of my colleagues, I’m happy to see the new initiative role out for the Tourism Product Diversification and Marketing Program. The one thing I will say, and it’s a lack of participation on behalf of the committee that looks at ITI, this is the first that we’ve seen of the program and I would hope, and I just wanted to get this on record, that as the program develops and it moves forward, that committee is involved in the rollout of this program because really this is the first time we’ve seen it. It makes it difficult for members on the Governance and...

Part 2, vote 2, capital investment expenditures, total supplementary appropriation for capital investment expenditures, $6.665 million.