Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Chair. In this area here where the contamination was found when the swimming pool was being taken down, there are additional remediation costs that will likely occur in the springtime, so the total costs are unknown at this point. This is the initial piece. Thank you.

Yes, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I believe it is a leased building.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, for our own policy and the requirements of that, if we can have the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs provide that information.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Our information was total area including all health authorities and the department falls in the area of $6.7 million. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I think we already have in place a fairly good system of informing Members when we have to make changes in the budget process, as well as request more funding. As stated in this case, as we became aware of it and started looking at this, started to do some of the review in this area working with departments, we’ve come to the point where we know we will not have the room within FMBS for 2005-2006 fiscal year to absorb this type of spike in the budget itself. Yes, the Member is right; between areas where it is, for example in this case, part of the union...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta, that Bill 20, An Act to Amend the Income Tax Act, No. 2, be read for the third time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as the Member pointed out, within this sitting we just passed a bill that would allow the petroleum products division within Public Works and Services to buy futures, as we would call them I guess, price hedging on the futures market on the commodities we need for our communities. That does give us, I guess, more tools in our toolbox to be able to try and lessen the impact of increased costs for fuel in the communities served by the petroleum products division. There is some risk in that. For example, if we just use the previous year’s occurrence, the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, just for the record, as well, the charity leases that we have in place are to non-profit organizations, whether it's the day cares or day care facilities, or women's associations, things of that…preschools. I'd be willing to have that discussion about the government's role in trying to do these things. As I said, we don't have a policy in place, but it is probably coming to the time where we do need to look at the environment that we're operating in. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, I am aware that we do have a number of charity leases throughout the government. It's not a standing policy; it's something that's developed over time when a unit has become available and an organization would put in a request to take over that facility. So, yes, I'm aware of our leases. Thank you.