Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Schauerte. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.

No, we’re not going to start over. We’re doing MACA.

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Minister McLeod, do you have witnesses you would like to bring into the Chamber? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. We’ll treat it as a comment. Thank you very much. Committee, we’re on page 113, wildlife, operations expenditure summary, $15.096 million. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. For that we’ll go to Mr. Williams.

I see the passion and I hear the passion with the department on this. I applaud the work that the department is doing. I want to say that, for the record, but I also want to say what’s modest for some may be seen as extremely high risk for others. As a Member of this House, I need to make sure that all voices are thought of when we’re doing these large, monumental and paradigm shifts in thinking when it comes to expenditure control and borrowing limits. I do appreciate what I’ve heard, but I’m doing my due diligence, Madam Chair.

As we heard from the Minister – and again this is before...

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger, for those fine closing remarks. I’d like to thank you and your department, as well, for your stewardship. Mr. Campbell, Ms. Craig, thank you for joining us. It’s always a pleasure to have you in the House. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort our witnesses out of the Chamber. Thank you.

Continuing on with committee’s wishes, we will start the Department of Lands. With that, we’ll turn it over to the Minister responsible for the Department of Lands for opening comments, Minister R.C. McLeod.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Deputy Minister Campbell, please.

Thank you, committee. Page 353, Municipal and Community Affairs, active position summary, information item. Any questions?

I’ll leave that question as is. I’m still a bit perplexed doing the math. Given the vacancy rate that we have, the number of positions we have and still, at the end of the day, it appears that there’s money being tied up into vacant, unfilled positions to which, I believe, would have a huge benefit of accessibility should that money be profiled, or re-profiled for cases such as this where we need short-term money, especially near the end of the year when we’re really hitting the odometer reset in less than a month for April 1st. So again, it’s an accounting exercise of large proportion, but I...