Kevin O'Reilly

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I move that the chair rise and report progress.

Merci, Madam la Presidente. Committee wishes to consider Committee Report 4019(2), Committee Report 4319(2), Bill 61, Bill 63, Tabled Document 88119(2), Tabled Document 88219(2), Tabled Document 88319(2), and Committee Report 4419(2). Mahsi, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I'm just trying to find a way to say nicely that it would be better if we could get better answers rather than push it off to some future point where we don't know whether the information is actually going to be made public or not. And I'll leave it at that. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Yeah, thanks for that. And that's why the Standing Committee on Government Operations in its I think most recent review of the public accounts has asked for greater transparency of those contingent liability amounts, as is done in some other jurisdictions. And I just don't know why that kind of information can't be disclosed to us as Regular MLAs. But I'm going to run out of time here, Madam Chair. But I'm going to be voting against the supplementary appropriation, particularly for this amount, because I think this is just extremely poor project management and not the kind of thing that we...

Yeah, thanks, Mr. Chair. I want to, first of all, thanks the committee for the work that they did on this. And I know that this was tabled in the House on February the 28th. So, you know, since the report was even tabled, there's been other progress made as well and, you know, I point to the process convention on bills drafted pursuant to the Intergovernmental Council legislative development protocols. So I assume that that would probably be part of the orientation that Regular MLAs and Members of Cabinet would receive as some background on that legislative development protocol and then...

Merci, Monsieur le President. And I'm going to spring this on the Minister of Finance unfortunately, but there was a audit report just released by the Auditor General of Canada connecting connectivity in rural and remote areas. There's quite a bit of discussion, Mr. Speaker, in this report about unspent funds. I thought our government was bad getting money out the door but this is actually quite shocking in terms of supporting internet connectivity in rural and remote communities. You know, for example, the broadband fund, only 26 percent of the money budgeted was expended. Low earth or orbit...

Okay, thanks. Can I get some detail about which areas are going to be protected? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Okay, thanks. And then we don't have any residual obligations for O and M or and so on, is that correct? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the mover for the work on this motion. I think we need to have this discussion and debate, Mr. Speaker. This is one of the tools that we can have in our arsenal to try to prevent homelessness, and I think we need as I said, we need to have this discussion and debate.

You know, if you look at the motion, this is a request for this issue to be examined. We're going to hear from the government side about this. And of course if the government is not prepared to take action, it might be the subject of a potential private Member's bill at some point. But...

Thanks, Madam Chair. So on page 161, the Whati Fibre Project is listed. Can someone explain to me was that just, like, put out to tender, or how was that project undertaken? Thanks, Madam Chair.