Bob Bromley

Thank you. I look forward to that. Will we see some policy gaps being identified, and if they have, will we be seeing some proposals to address them?

I’ll leave it at that, other than noting that it’s 11 months. Thank you.

Obviously, there’s a lot of planning and whatnot, preparation that takes place as things develop, and the short-term borrowing and warrants. Would that still cover off the cost of those sorts of expenditures?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just noticed our licences, rental and other fees, water use fees are the same as they were last year. The Minister has said those would be going up. I am just wondering the status of that. Thank you.

Thanks to the Minister for those comments and the commitment.

My last thing was just on the contaminated sites side of things. I recognize the statement that these liabilities increase and decrease based on the remediation of contaminated sites and the booking of new contaminated sites, and being a guy that’s always looking at prevention whenever I can, I’d say the biggest factor is the success or failure of preventing the development of new sites. I’m sure that’s part of the department’s overall goal, but again, other sections may deal with the prevention side. I just want to make sure that...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have all heard the traditional African proverb “it takes a village to raise a child.” In Alaska they take this one step further and say, “Raising a graduate is everybody’s business.” They recognize it is the responsibility of the entire community to be involved in providing the elements necessary to ensure success for our students, and so must we as we embark on education renewal.

When a student is successful, the entire community benefits. Children first need a solid grounding in early childhood development to ensure the full capacity to realize the potential of...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess I have a number of questions on this page. I note the intent of this division is to prevent and reduce the impact of human activities with a conservation goal. Yet, when I read about the climate change program section, there’s not a word about prevention in there, there’s not a word about forecasting the impacts of climate change and providing expert advice to our government on the likely costs and impacts of that. I’ll use, for an example, forestry. We heard a forestry expert interviewed this morning on CBC, and he noted that the average area burned… I can’t...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I just had one question. I’m wondering what the contract services are for, the $625,000. I see that’s up from $343,000 a couple years before, and if I could just get an idea of the sorts of contracts that are being budgeted here for contract services. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d also like to recognize Dr. Andre Corriveau, a resident of Weledeh and a well-known member of Yellowknife; also Julie Green who is also well known for all her work on the many social issues including the poverty one, but all the related ones, as well, housing and so on. Thanks to those for attending today. Mahsi.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate the discussion that‘s just been had and I‘d like to just make a couple of comments and ask a question. First of all, I appreciate the deputy minister‘s recognition of the safety issue and his mention that really the best thing is to get people off the road, like, right away from that. There‘s no safe place to cross, Ms. Bisaro and the Minister are right, but there‘s also no safe place to walk on that highway and there are no options, so people have to and they are doing that. So it‘s a very unsafe situation. I know the deputy minister and Minister realize...