Robert C. McLeod

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Member raises a number of fairly good points. I do want to assure the Member that through the departmental working group, we are looking at a number of things that she actually spoke to. She talked about equipment and that’s one thing they’re looking at, maintenance, administration, training, planning, budgeting and operations. I take the Member’s point very seriously, though, that we do have some folks that are responding to accidents outside their boundaries and they are actually paying for it. So the Member’s point is well taken and I can assure the Member that as...

No, not for the Arctic Energy Alliance.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We’ll put some information together for the Member and he’ll have all the information he needs on the questions that he’s asked.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. There was a reorg a few years ago and I think we had a new public safety division, and I believe we’re staffed with four members in that division now. The Member asked if I feel that it’s important that we try to get more resources and more staff members, but I think she was asking on the assumption that we had one staff member there. We do have four and they’re doing a pretty good job working with communities and trying to get their emergency plans and everything all up to date. The Member is absolutely correct. We’ve been hearing it here in the last four or five weeks...

I’m not sure if the Member is referring to the same document that we have. Maybe he can explain himself.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the Member staying off youth and moving on to this one. I will commit to Ms. Bisaro that I will have a discussion with my colleagues as to why we have three different pots. If we can pool them into one, then I will commit to Ms. Bisaro that is something we will do before the next budget cycle.

I’m not sure exactly what the fee structure is. I don’t have that information with me. As far as the last time it was reviewed, I said before that I’m not sure of that, either. So we will gather the information and share it with the Member.

We have 16 communities that have updated emergency plans and 15 that need some updating. We have two that don’t have updated plans and we continue to encourage them to come forth with an emergency plan. But communities have done a great job in responding to emergencies and now that we’re getting the plans in place, I think they’re going to be better equipped in the future to respond to any particular type of emergency in the community.

That offer was meant to all members of committee and that offer stands. We’d be more than happy to provide committee with detail and seek some input from committee.

Mr. Speaker, when we developed our strategic plan, Building for the Future, residents told us that we needed to examine our home ownership programs and