Bob Bromley

Just for my clarity, that means we are no longer in a surplus position at some point to the three-quarters of the way through the year or whatever. Is that correct?

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thanks for the Minister’s response. Yes, that would seem to be the appropriate vehicle. So maybe I’ll just ask the Minister to commit to making sure that there’s come discussion and consideration in the Financial Administration Act, the new version dealing with that renewal to provide that transparency in a practical way, monthly or quarterly or something like that. I’ll leave it at that. Mahsi.

How do we decide, I guess, and just cut to the chase on the last part of that, how do Members know what we’re choosing to put into short-term debt? Where is the transparency there and how can the public become informed about that during the normal course of events?

Thanks for the Minister’s comments there. Perhaps there’s another way to deal with this issue. I mean, I understand Mr. Hawkins, but those are drums that are in our possession. These are drums and contaminants that are being left out on the land in remote situations that by law are, I’m sure, supposed to be cleaned up but aren’t, simply because of this mechanism that’s been removed. Perhaps there’s another way the Minister could conceive of dealing with this in another section of this department. I’ll leave it at that. I’m just raising the issue and it sounds like it’s not going to happen in...

Thanks for that information. What sorts of things are eligible for short-term debt? I assume that this is not debt that is self-servicing. It’s debt that we intend to simply pay off with revenues on the 1st of April of each fiscal year. What sorts of things would go into this? What sorts of things would we borrow under this short-term borrowing category?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That indeed sounds positive and I’d be curious to learn more about that. Maybe there will be an opportunity.

Now, I see our opening balance on the fund is continuing to increase or at least remaining stable. Are there any plans? Is that part of the equation here on getting this electronics recycling going? Are there plans for those dollars or is that the amount we want to continue to maintain in the fund? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. What’s the definition of short-term borrowing as opposed to long-term borrowing?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks for that response, Deputy Minister. That was interesting information on the mobile zones. Sounds like a unique opportunity there.

We are, again, just to repeat, we’ve clearly failed with caribou management and I can guarantee as a biologist and a keen observer that we will fail with the Bluenose-East herd unless this government gets up the gumption to close the season when the cow harvest is filled because the cow harvest will not stop. If the cow harvest has been filled, then we know that many more cows have been killed than the department is aware of. How many...

Two questions. So we’ve gone from 2,100 now down to two. That’s an interesting leap. What the public is demanding and has demanded…and the Premier’s strategy of giving them a website to look at will work. Over time, people will lose interest, be disconnected from government and there will be no transparency as the Premier would like. Clearly, what’s needed is some real interaction.

Again, when will the Premier put out a plain language version of all these acts to people and put out word when the meetings will be, where they will be and give them a real opportunity to have some input and make...

Thank you. So that work was completed. We have a strategy and all that that’s adopted now?