Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Maybe you could clarify which website you were referencing.

Thank you, committee. We will move on to the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs. I’d like to thank the witnesses for their attendance here. Thank you, Minister. Sergeant-at-Arms, if you would please escort the witnesses from the Chamber.

Alright, committee, Municipal and Community Affairs starts on page 6-7, but before we start, I will go to the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs and ask Minister McLeod if he has any opening comments.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thanks to the Minister. I’m hearing that this committee will be established and I gather that it’s a permanent committee. It will look at increasing minimum wages on a regular basis, I gather.

I’d like to know from the Minister how many people are part of this committee. I would think it would be rather cumbersome, and I’d like to know what kind of an expense this committee is going to cost us.

Committee, we are on page 11-25, Transportation, activity summary, marine, operations expenditure summary, $5.717 million.

That’s great. Thanks very much, Ms. Young. The next thing I wanted to talk about was legislation. I think it goes under this section. I mentioned in my general comments that I feel very strongly that it’s time that municipalities be included under the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act. I’ll mention two other things here as well. They’re sort of legislation but they’re policy oriented more so.

The municipal taxation authority been delayed, I think, for communities which are currently non-tax-based, and I wonder if we have a date when the department intends to download that...

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Bouchard, your time is up. I will put you back on the list if need be. Next is Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, committee. We will return to page 11-7, Transportation, department summary, operations expenditure summary, $117.011 million.

Thanks to the Minister for the update. The Minister said that a committee will be established and start work in the spring. I need to ask the Minister what this committee is intending to do and what work they will be undertaking.

Thanks, Minister Ramsay. Just to the Minister and to Mr. Hawkins, we are talking about marine, which is kind of ferry operations, I believe, not dredging, but maybe Minister Ramsay can identify whether the $60,000 we are talking about is…where it is in the budget.

So does that mean I can tell the mayor of the City of Yellowknife that he’s getting an increase in water and sewer funding?