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Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

Thank you, committee. Committee, there are only five clauses to this bill, so we’re going to do one at a time. Clause 1.

---Clauses 1 through 5 inclusive approved

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. We’ll turn our attention to the chairman responsible for the standing committee for reviewing the bill. Mr. Hawkins.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It’s clear this government expects private industry to pay our financing for projects, and this is unacceptable.

As we said clearly, we went to an arbitrator, we agreed with the arbitration that we owe this contractor money. We’ve got two pots of money that are clearly in detail to use for such things as a payment back to a contractor. We’ve got holdbacks. We’ve got workings with the government. Again, this is a perfect, clear-cut case that we should be paying our bills.

Why is this Minister, why is this Cabinet, why is this government refusing to support local...

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Mr. Hawkins.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. We’ll go to Mr. Neudorf.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

Thank you, committee. Sergeant-at-Arms, if you could please escort the witnesses into the House. Minister Beaulieu, if you’ll be kind enough to introduce your witnesses to the Chamber.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

Thank you, committee. Bill 60 is now ready for third reading. Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. Thank you, Mr. Loutitt, Mr. Neudorf and Mr. Chutskoff for joining us this evening. If I could get the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses out of the Chamber. Thank you. Mr. Bromley.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

Let’s actually speak about all the numbers, shall we, because we’re kind of dancing and skirting around the issue. As I said, ATCON has a holdback of $696,707, plus this government has a holdback with Ruskin and ATCON for over $958,000. Clearly, we’ve got two pots of money here that could be used to pay the bills that are outstanding to the project. Will the Minister commit to paying this bill?

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

Sergeant-at-Arms, if you could please escort the witnesses in.

Minister Lafferty, if you’d be kind enough to introduce your witnesses to the House.