Thank you, Mr. Chair. If could maybe get a little bit more clarification with this $100,000 for the convention bureau. Thank you.

I’m not going to disagree with the Minister on some of those comments, but he brought up the 2008 subprime mortgage issue. I’m not sure how that fit into the response, but anyway.

I think Members on this side of the House have made things perfectly clear. We are very concerned going into this budget on this shortfall. I believe, personally, that this shortfall has caused a tethering, if you will, in the fiscal strategy of this government. It’s unfortunate that we weren’t able to calculate that properly and I think that has put a real kink in the cogwheel in terms of what our forecasting will be...

Again, I appreciate the Minister’s ongoing commitment and steadfast resolve in being true to his word.

Minister Ramsay also went on to say on October 24, 2013, “It’s not an issue about funding and it shouldn’t be an issue of funding.” With the main estimates and ITI before the House later today, is there a budget for lifeguards for this year’s budget? Thank you.

Committee, we are on page 12-33, activity summary, economic diversification and business support, grants and contributions, $13.858 million. Agreed?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just a clarification question on the energy contributions under the $1.6 million. I notice in the description it talks about an Energy Plan charrette. Are we planning to have a follow-up or is that a follow-up to what we had before? Thank you.

I’m getting detail. Seeing no general comments, we’ll go into detail. Is that right, committee?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My questions will be around the same theme as my colleagues, around the personal income tax and the corporate income tax.

I guess to set the stage here is to look at what the past has shown us, and if you look at the past tabled documents when it looks at the main estimates, the curiosity I have here is I find that there has been some revised-revised estimates, that I am looking at here with respect to the ‘13-14 revised estimates. But that’s fine. We kind of got the explanation here from the deputy minister.

I just wanted to be clear; we have heard from the Minister...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. With the cold weather today, it’s really hard to start talking about summer and our beaches, especially about safety. Recently, the coroner tabled a report on the findings of a young boy’s accidental drowning on June 27, 2013, at Fred Henne Territorial Park. Within the coroner’s report, there are strong recommendations and comments about the assistance of the Royal Life Saving Society of Canada, methods that this government should be following to make our beaches safer.

Sadly, it is also mentioned that all levels of protection must be a priority and implemented before...

Thank you, Minister Ramsay. Committee, we are on 12-30 to 12-33. I have Ms. Bisaro.

So this money is given to the NWT geoscience office for redistribution. Does the department have any performance measures, evaluation or audit tools in connection with this money?