David Ramsay

Clause 3.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am just wondering if the Minister could perhaps give us a bit of a better breakdown of what the additional $311,000 is for. All that it states here is the Mackenzie Valley winter road; it doesn’t have any detail of what the expenditure is for.

Clause 2.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. What was the reason again? Was it strictly the Social Programs committee that wanted it to come forward this way to Committee of the Whole?

Clause 1.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Does the Minister know what the GNWT spends on an annual basis in terms of fuel? What do we spend on an annual basis for everything?

Good afternoon. Does the committee agree to go clause by clause?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted that clarified by the Minister because it would seem, even though it doesn’t deal with marriages per se, but just from a sheer optics point of view or a natural process point of view you would think that we would get some certainty on the definition of marriage and then proceed from there. But again, I do support Bill 17, but I just wondered on the process a little bit. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a few questions with regard to budgeting for fuel prices. I am a bit concerned about this for a number of reasons. The figure just on increases alone in this supp is $2.22 million and that’s just on increases. If that is just on increases alone, does the Minister of FMB have any idea of what the government spends on an annual basis in terms of fuel? How is this budgeted for in the document that we just approved yesterday? What do they base their assumptions on? Is it the gas prices a year ago? How do they do that? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.