Daryl Dolynny
Statements in Debates
I appreciate the Minister’s response. For my final answer, again, I’m looking for closure on this file. There will be no other supplementary asks for any other budgetary lines that we should expect in committee with respect to any type of funding for demolition of these two schools or any other type of repatriation or costs associated with the new E3 School project as a whole asset cost?
Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Okay, committee, we’re on page 15, Environment and Natural Resources, operations expenditures, corporate management, not previously authorized, $91,000; environment, not previously authorized, $500,000; forest management, not previously authorized, negative $82,000; water resources, not previously authorized, $586,000; conservation, assessment and monitoring, not previously authorized, $7,000. Total department, not previously authorized, $1.102 million. Does committee agree?
Thank you, committee. Committee, we’re going to actually defer the clause-by-clause on page 1 until we give consideration to the schedule and if I can draw your attention, committee, to pages 3 to 9 in the bill. Schedule, debts forgiven, total, $648,471.63. Does committee agree?
Thank you, Madam Chair. I move that internal compliance audits and action plans designed to address deficiencies prepared by regional authorities be modified for privacy considerations and tabled in the Legislative Assembly; and further, that internal audits include updates on indicators associated with Exhibits 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the Auditor General’s report. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Bromley. I’ll take that more as a comment, unless the Minister wants to respond. Minister Miltenberger.
Thank you. Bill as a whole.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I’m just going to zone in on one of the line entries here for the asset management, and that’s under the $2.758 million, which the descriptor indicates funding for costs associated with concluding the demolition of Sir Alexander Mackenzie School in Inuvik. I guess, just so I can understand some of the clarity here, this is now an operational cost, and I believe the original total budget – which it actually appears that this demolition has now dragged on for almost two and a half years, almost three years here – I believe, was around $8.6 million for the complete...
Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. For that, we’ll go to Mr. St. Germaine.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m strongly encouraged from what I am hearing from the Minister, and I appreciate the thoroughness of his reply. Back in October 2012, I suggested an amendment to the act of the removal and confiscation of the illegal and dangerous use of a mobile tool while driving. The then-Minister said the department would consider the idea. I’ve heard nothing since.
Because I believe we have to get tough on treatment like any other addiction, can the Minister convince this House he has a handle on this issue and will give it his full attention for the remaining life of the 17th...