Wendy Bisaro

Thanks to the Minister. I appreciate that we don’t want people stopping there, but maybe we could just brainstorm a little. I mean, sitting here listening to the answer, I totally agree that we don’t want people parking in the drop-off zone, but maybe if we put luggage carriers outside. You know, something like that just to make life a little simpler. There are a lot of people who simply drop somebody off and move on and you cannot get out of your vehicle unless you want to get a parking ticket. So something like that would make things a little more inviting.

I also wondered with regard to...

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Next on the list is Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Neudorf.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Minister Ramsay.

Mr. Chair, thanks to the Minister for finally acquiescing and agreeing that we complain to him. I’m not proposing that the government implement a service, but I think the government has a bit of a responsibility to assist the community or communities that do want to try and put the service into place. I appreciate the Minister’s position here. As long as some support is provided, I think that’s fair.

The Minister mentioned ground ambulance. I was going to wait for the next page, but I will mention it here. It’s kind of all part of the same thing. I wanted to just point out that the Minister has...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thanks to the DM for that explanation. I think I totally understand. I heard him say that we had an increase of about $529,000 through the fees and licensing and so on, the revenue from those. Then we increased our toll permits about $3 million, it looks like, $2.7 million. I guess the numbers do add up. It’s about $3 million difference in revenue in total. Okay. Never mind. I talked myself out of my question.

Mr. Nadli.

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Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Minister Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a few questions here. I’ll start with the emergency preparedness. The Minister heard a number of people, in their general comments, talk about emergency preparedness and our need to have capacity for communities and the government as well, but communities and the government to be able to deal with things that happen, either major items within the community but also on our highways which, unfortunately, we had evidence of in the last little while.

My first question has to do with staff, and we did have a larger complement of staff in the emergency preparedness...