Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Madam Chair. We wish to continue with Tabled Document 22-17(5). We started Transportation. We would like to continue with Transportation, then Municipal and Community Affairs and then Lands, in that order.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I have a couple of questions here. The first one, the grants-in-lieu of taxes has increased quite a bit, about $600,000. Could I get an explanation of the rationale for the increase in this? Thanks.

Thanks to the Minister for telling me things that I already know. Thanks very much. My question, I don’t believe, was answered. I’d like to ask the Minister again, what is this government doing to address the 19 recommendations that came from the Coalition Against Family Violence in the last year or two?

Thanks to Mr. Schauerte. I guess I’m trying to understand, it’s based on a formula, that I understand, but if it’s forced growth, how does the formula address forced growth? I mean, generally if there’s a formula, you’ve got a pot of money and you apply the formula and divvy it up to the communities, but this explanation suggests to me that the communities are indicating forced growth and, therefore, the pot of money increases, so I’m just trying to reconcile how this works. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have some questions today for the Minister of Justice. I want to follow up on my Member’s statement, and I’d like to talk a little bit about what this government is doing to address the issue of violence against women and family violence. When Minister Miltenberger gave his budget address, as I mentioned in my statement, I heard very little about violence against women and the Coalition Against Family Violence, so I’d like to know from the Minister of Justice if he could please advise what kind of funding is in this budget, this ’14-15 budget, for the Coalition...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. With regard to the community government grants and contributions at the bottom of this page, there has been an increase from ’12-13 to ’13-14 and then again in ’14-15, so is this like a cost of living increase or is it for some other reason? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to echo Mr. Bromley; I had the same questions. I am really pleased to hear that the department is willing to look at this because it has been a number or years where it has sat at the same level, so I’m glad that there is an opportunity to perhaps increase it.

My question on this page has to do with the youth corps money. I see that the department has changed the descriptions of various things somewhat and made them more obvious, so I don’t have to ask the question about what things mean, but I do notice that on page 34 we have $675,000 for youth corps, then...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I wanted to ask a question with regard to the grant for community government funding. It’s the same amount as last year. I believe, although it does say allocated in accordance with the Extraordinary Funding Policy, the last time we asked about this I believe that there really wasn’t a lot of usage of this particular fund. So I’d like to know in ’13-14 how much of the $168,000 was used and maybe if they’ve got the information where it was used, to whom it went. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to say that I do support this motion for a couple of reasons. One is that I have been able to personally see this initiative in action twice now and it is providing education at the high school level to communities that would not normally be able to get the range of courses that they are getting through the e-learning initiative.

Secondly, I think the fact that this is being fully funded by the Beau-Del District Education Council is patently unfair. This is an initiative on the part of this particular district education council and they are being funded on a per...

And the amount that’s in the supplementary reserve at the moment? Thank you.