Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Nothing further, Mr. Abernethy? Moving on, Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Yes, Mr. Robert McLeod.

I’d like to call the Committee of the Whole back to order for review of the Main Estimates for the Department of Human Resources.

Thank you, Ms. Woodward. Follow-up, Mr. Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Seeing no further questions on pages 2-52 and 2-53, we’ll move to our first votable item. Sorry. Mr. McLeod.

Any comments? General comments? Okay. No general comments at this time. Does the committee agree? Mrs. Groenewegen.

Information item. Any questions on the next two pages, Active Positions under Directorate?

Moving on, we’re on page 2-59, Human Resource Strategy and Policy, Operations Expenditure Summary, $4,855,000. Mr. Ramsay.

Mr. Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 37-16(2), Main Estimates 2008–2009, Volumes 1 and 2, and Committee Report 5-16(2), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on the Review of the 2008–2009 Draft Main Estimates, and would like to report progress.

Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of the Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you for those remarks, Minister. Of course, this is a real situation. Inuvik failed to get their fuel supply last year, and the surrounding communities suffered accordingly. Residents paid more and so on. But it wasn't a real shortage, and that's obviously a real possibility.

For the Minister's information, catastrophic events are going up by about an order of magnitude around the world, both in costs and frequency, so we can expect this to be a real situation.

I understand that we're losing our emergency preparedness coordinator. I'm asking that the Minister...