Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Minister Roland.

Thank you. Page 2-30, activity summary, Cabinet support, grants and contributions, grants, $219,000; contributions, $592,000; total grants and contributions, $811,000, agreed?

Page 1-24, information item, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, active positions.

I appreciate that response from the Premier. I’m wondering what this government is doing to actually reduce the cost of living beyond buying out a reduction in the cost of living and putting it onto the back of our taxpayers indirectly, sort of hiding those costs in a way. Not that I don’t appreciate those programs; we need them as part of our strategy. But what are we doing to actually reduce the costs of services to our people and the cost of living directly?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Premier Roland.

Thank you, committee. We will defer the operations expenditure summary, program summary on page 2-7. We will start on page 2-8, information item, Executive, infrastructure investment summary. Questions? Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Minister Roland.

Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort witnesses into the House.

Mr. Speaker, would you like to introduce your witnesses, please.

The $60 million has been touted about dozens of times in the last week or 10 days. Now I’m being led to understand that the $3 million -- and I don’t know if that’s this year only or on into the future or what -- is being used to subsidize power. That’s an artificial reduction in the cost of electricity. I’m all for reducing costs of power to our users, but I’d sooner see it spent in real ways, one of which is off-the-shelf alternative energy. I’m getting very nervous about... I agree if we sort of end up there collectively, but I want to stop hearing about $60 million for alternative energy...

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Does committee agree that we go into detail?