David Ramsay
Statements in Debates
Legal aid services, special warrants, $387,000.
Thank you. Let’s go to Bill 1, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 2005-2006, clause 1.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a number of items that I wanted to cover and I will start with just wanting to make a few comments on the new money that is there for initiatives to prepare for the Mackenzie gas project. I have said it many times before, I think we are, as a government, more reactive to things that happen, rather than proactive. Here we are again requesting some jobs, some positions when this type of work and the pipeline office is still not staffed up to the level that it is supposed to be staffed up to.
This is work that should have been done years ago. We should have been...
Not previously authorized, negative $389,000.
Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Yakeleya? No. I have Ms. Lee next.
Page 26, Public Works and Services continued, capital investment expenditures, petroleum products continued, total department, special warrants, $699,000.
Page 33, Transportation continued, capital investment expenditures, ferries, special warrants, $27,000.
Thank you. Page 8, Executive continued, operations expenditures, Aboriginal Affairs, Aboriginal Affairs, not previously authorized, $161,000.
Income security, not previously authorized, negative $73,000.
Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. Minister.