Wendy Bisaro

Last question then. If we come close to that borrowing authorization limit, what do we do? Thank you.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. The other two questions I wanted to ask here, I may have missed it when I had to step out. I think Mr. Aumond mentioned our cash position and that was one of my questions, was where are we at in terms of our cash position? We have a Borrowing Authorization Act which allows us to borrow up to a certain limit. Will we reach that limit? If we do, then what do we do?

My other question has to do with our borrowing limit and the $100 million cushion that we are trying to keep in our borrowing limit. I would like to know, in the 2014-15 year are we going to go under that $100...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Aumond left off where one of the questions that I wanted to go with regard to the $20 million that we’re borrowing. I heard him say that we will need $15 million in this budget year and then $5 million is expected after March 31, 2015. If the question’s been asked and I missed it, I’m sorry. But why are we being asked to approve $20 million in the 2014-15 budget year, which ends March 31, 2015, when $5 million of that is going to be used in the 2015-16 budget year? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I had two minutes left. I just wanted to say that I appreciate the government’s intent, but somebody dropped the ball and I appreciate that the Minister has suggested that yes, maybe they did. I do appreciate also that there are times when decisions need to be made quickly, but I still believe that there is still an opportunity, even when a decision is made quickly, to let Regular Members know what that decision has been.

As to his question about my questions, yes, I will raise them later on. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We would like to consider Tabled Document 155-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2014-2015; and, time permitting, Tabled Document 154-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 4, 2014-2015; and, time permitting, Tabled Document 115-17(5), Northwest Territories Capital Estimates 2015-2016, with the Department of Transportation. Thank you.

Thanks to the Minister. Still not that clear, but I’ll give up on that one. I think it’s a matter of language.

So, I’d like to know, first of all – not first, this is my third question, I’d like to know from the Minister, when issues come before the House or they come before a committee, Members very often want to have some input into the issue, and very often it has to do with an issue where the Minister and/or his delegate will have to rule on a decision.

So, I’d like to know if the Minister, as regulator, or basically him as a regulator, if he can accept input from Regular Members on an...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move that consideration of Tabled Document 155-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2014-2015, be now concluded and that Tabled Document 155-17(5) be reported and recommended as ready for further consideration in formal session through the form of an appropriation bill. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the mover of the motion bringing it forward. I’ve listened to the arguments on both sides and I really don’t know whom to believe at this point. I see the value in retaining the CL-215s, but I also understand the cost that’s involved if we do that. I do appreciate that I think the argument that the eight new 802s will suffice, that we don’t need to keep the CL-215s. So I’m torn and think that I don’t want to vote against this motion.

I certainly appreciate the second part of this motion. I do believe that we need to make sure that our communities have...

Thanks, Mr. Speaker. Thanks to the Minister. I am happy to provide him with a copy of the letter. I will do that immediately after session.

I would like to ask the Minister, he is talking about doing a survey of communities for needs. I presume that means the number of public buildings and the number of AEDs that they would need.

Can he give me any idea of when we can expect the survey results so that we will know our needs and can get going on further applying for money? Thanks.

Thanks to the Minister. As in the response that was tabled a couple of weeks ago, I hear a lot of the tense of the verbs is in the future. I would hope that we are going to be soon present tense and doing work as opposed to we will be doing work.

The federal program is a four-year program that started in 2013, so we are already one year in.

I would like to ask the Minister, in terms of the applications for money to get AEDs for free, are we going to make the deadline of the four-year program? Thank you.