David Ramsay

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess this is nothing new for the Minister to hear this; the Minister of ENR, that is. It goes back to some comments I made in the House earlier this week with caribou and how it is that we seem to be just having a haphazard approach to looking at and counting herds or caribou from east to west. If you look at the numbers, we are going to spend $550,000 on a Caribou Management Strategy, but we really haven’t had a meeting with all the stakeholders involved, a sit down, a heart to heart with everybody. It hasn’t happened. Here we are; we're going to go out and spend...

Mahsi, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I agree with the Minister that it’s important to shore up the day cares that we do have and I know the Minister has heard me stand up in the House in February and again today talking about inequities that exist between operators, some are in government-owned facilities and some aren’t. I would like to ask the Minister, of the $500,000 that he has suggested will go to grants to assist operators, is some of that money going to be earmarked for operators here in Yellowknife to level that playing field that I talked about earlier? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Services to the public, $93,000.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, when the airport in Yellowknife was renovated to accommodate the security screening equipment -- and I believe at the time the entire project was just over $11 million, $11.2 million -- I think it was $6.2 million that the Government of the Northwest Territories was going to receive from CATSA and the difference was going to be made up by increased landing fees, I believe, or some fees at the airport. Maybe I could just ask the Minister which fees those were that were increased to offset the capital cost of this renovation project and why can’t we look...

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like the Minister to provide a breakdown of how that $940,000 is going to be spent on childcare initiatives. Thank you.

Thank you. Page 26, Justice, capital investment expenditures, not previously authorized, legal aid services, $297,000.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Next on the list I’ve got Mr. Hawkins.