Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. General comments. Next on the list I have Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Next I have Mr. Moses.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. For general comments, I have Mr. Nadli and then Mr. Moses. Mr. Nadli.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. We’ll continue with general comments and first I have Mr. Yakeleya.

Is committee agreed?

Okay, we’ll do that after a short break. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again, I think the Premier’s suggestion of perhaps enhancing the NGO Stabilization Fund may be the perfect vehicle for which to do this, because these are small things I’m talking about, but they make a huge difference in supporting the efforts within our communities. So I would just like to close by thanking the Premier very much for his response to this request. Thank you.

Agreed. Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Thank you, Mr. Aumond. The Sergeant-at-Arms will escort you out of the Chamber. Thank you.

I’d like to thank the Premier for that response. I’ve obviously been a part of some previous governments and I can remember sometimes when we were going through cost-saving exercises as a government and we went to the bureaucracy and said, you know, what could we cut to save some money and the list they sent back to us was so unpalatable. I mean, they would go, oh well, we would never do it. So maybe it’s not actual cutting, maybe it’s reductions in certain areas where we can find some money, as the government always says, from within to come up with a program. I think it would send a very...

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Mr. Miltenberger.