Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’m just wondering, following up on earlier discussions, if we expect the electronics side of things to be paying for itself. Is there an opportunity to generate some revenue aligned with the costs of the program, if we’re that far along in our assessment? Thank you.

I guess that means that maybe one doesn’t exist, but anyway, we’ll have to wait and see. So, so be it.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks to the Speaker. That sounds like a great plan. I believe I heard him mention the glass doors and I know that is an issue for some people, as he said, that are on canes or crutches. I must just throw out a little personal anecdote. Having ended up in the hospital having my head stitched up, you can actually try and walk through those doors sometimes. I don’t know whether that’s an issue, although you might want to have a decal about eye level. That’s all I had. Thank you for that response.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks to the Minister. Just on the timber permits and licences, I know we’ve signed a recent forest management agreement and the Minister has mentioned that stumpage fees will be modest. With this activity, will there be any likely revenue in this area in the foreseeable future? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to be clear. What has been the change with the shift of this section to the new section on water resources in terms of our ability to actually regulate use of water? For example, with the fracking applications that we see, we’ve already seen the application for Conoco that’s fracking now and all of a sudden they’ve hardly gotten along on their first one and they’re already upping their requirements dramatically. Eventually much of that water will be stored in perpetuity out of the ecosystem. Does this department now have authority, or will it be developing...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will be happy to have those discussions, which are huge in their absence as of this date. But what the heck, we have 25 days to go or something. I think it’s a very legitimate request. Where is this written down? The Minister has been saying what’s actually fact. I want to see the legislation. I want to see the policy. Would the Minister provide that? If it doesn’t exist, tell us it doesn’t exist and the intent is to do it. The Member, my colleague Ms. Bisaro, requested, asked where is this legislation or this policy. The Minister responded, well, let’s have a...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks to the Minister. So, we are addressing this through both O and M and infrastructure budgets. That’s my understanding. Maybe could I just get a brief description of where our $3 million from O and M is going on this program?

I appreciate the Minister’s comments and his commitments and dedication here. I think he has done a lot of good work. It’s just that I see this government, of course, pursuing oil and gas as fast as we can and as much as we can, subsidizing it and so on.

What’s the Minister’s role in ensuring that the development of oil and gas stays within what we know are sustainable limits?

Yes, that’s obviously pretty incredible in this day and age, and I know the Minister would probably like to see that happen. Would the Minister commit to seeing that gets done? Thank you.

I didn’t mean to suggest or belittle the efforts that we have. I’m just saying how much better we could do with so much less and thereby free up resources for the many competing demands that we have. Much of what we are doing is aimed at 4 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions as generation of electricity in our communities, a miniscule part of our greenhouse gas emissions, and essentially our residential customers, which are already going down on their own accord, and not at, in fact, industry where our growth is. I would appreciate the Minister’s recognition of that and bringing that focus...