Caroline Wawzonek

Mr. Chair, I'm sure that the Department of ITI would be happy to provide a briefing on their film strategy. I think they've seen some successes with it. Thank you.

Yes, Mr. Chair, we'll certainly look into it and seeing if we can find out from the Department of Justice what the history of this ask is and whether or not there was any denials. Mr. Chair, it is a supplementary appropriation request, so I am trying having been admonished many times to stay within the boundaries of what the parameters are by the Speaker and now by yourself, I'm simply trying to think to the boundaries of the supplementary appropriation requests. But I made quite a lengthy number of commitments to give additional departmental operational information to Members, and I...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there is a variety of different tracking mechanisms that are underway. Every department is responsible to manage all of their internal positions. Finance, through the human resources division, then elects and collates that information. Mr. Speaker, I would commend our annual public service report. It doesn't put vacancies in there, but it does put a fair bit of information that shows the ascensions, so the different hiring of employees, retention rates, retirement rates, and certainly does give a good sense of what some of the movements are, and it does...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I can give the dates and approximate durations for each community that over the course of the summer and when they were evacuated. Now, whether that correlates to who applied, I don't know. So let me take that back and I'll I can provide this document. I mean, I can't really read out the chart here in an easy way, but I can provide that to committee and see if we do have a breakdown. I expect that that probably has been tracked to the extent that we could. I just want to go back and confirm what kind of data I do have. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And, Mr. Chair, I first just wanted to note I was misreading the change and the increase to the rates is coming in in March of the well, of this year, but this is really just attributable to the fact of there being an increase in overall costs in the program and the increase in individuals who are relying on that. But, you know, as far as how the budgeting process works, when if there are for example, when there's an increase in the contracted rate, that is the kind of item that a department may bring through the forced growth process because it's an unavoidable...

That was an excellent question, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, that certainly obviously doesn't relate to the sup, and I'm speaking at this point really with the Department of Infrastructure hat on. It's been brought to my attention that it's a concern at this point. This is an area where we provide a significant amount of funding to the you know, exactly as was asked earlier, Arctic Energy Alliance for instance, as well as other initiatives. So, you know, at this point we are still expecting that some new tranche of funding will be negotiated but, again, at this moment in time I don't have that. So...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The positions may not be sunsetting. But with respect to what will happen, the funding itself is going to be sunsetting at the end of this fiscal. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, Mr. Chair, that is something that is worth highlighting as we're going through this. So this is administrative and support services. And so, yes, the agreements themselves are much larger and they include a larger sum, you know, for you know, for example, to actually go and do a frontline operation. But under the administrative part, it is just the portion that is allowed to be used for administrative functions. But yet, for instance, the northern wellness agreement sees a small amount here, but you will see it come back under a much larger portion under the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. In 20232024, the department had contracts with five southern facilities three in Calgary, one in Naniamo, and one in Toronto. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I'm, again, not aware of there being a denial but I certainly can't say that for sure as the supplementary appropriation comes forward for the one that are approved. So I don't have any information here on the sup as to things that weren't that aren't being put forward for a request. Thank you.