Glen Abernethy

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Given that there’s an error here, shouldn’t we fix that in this book?

No, I’m good. Thanks.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I’m just curious what “Gain on Investments” is. I see in 2006–2007 it’s $1.971 million, but then in ’07–08 and ’08–09 it completely disappears. Why is there nothing budgeted for ’08–09? If someone could help me understand what that is, that would be great.

So this clears up previous fiscal years, up to 2006–07, but doesn’t deal with 2007–2008; they’re going into this fiscal year with some additional debt. Do I understand that correctly? The current year’s debt. The current fiscal year’s deficit of $26 million.

I look forward to finding out whether that system is actually capable of doing a tiered system.

Obviously, the reason I ask is I think it’s time for us to re-examine how we do registration rates in the Northwest Territories. Currently we have one rate. All vehicles are the same. If you look at other jurisdictions, like I said in my Member’s statement, some jurisdictions use different systems such as carbon emissions, mileage or gross vehicle weight.

I was wondering if I can get the Minister responsible for Transportation to commit to exploring the possibilities and conducting some research...

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Minister Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I’d like to talk a little bit about the environment and the consumer. There’s little to no question that global warming is a reality. Permafrost is melting, carbon emissions are up, greenhouse gases are all over the place. There’s a lot we’re doing in this government to help, but more can be done. I’d like to applaud ENR for their support of the Arctic Energy Alliance rebates for vehicles and other high-energy-use equipment and machines. But it’s time for us to think about other areas where we can really be working on reducing emissions.

I’ve been doing a little...

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Minister Roland. Ms. LeClair.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Mr. Bromley.