Daryl Dolynny

Mr. Chair, if the Minister can also maybe give a clarification. Out of the $13.894 million, what dollar figure from that was due to acquiring and subcontracting other air support other than what we have currently in our fleet? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I guess just to pinpoint a little bit of the time flying by that the Minister has just indicated, he has indicated earlier that in October 2014 we should be seeing some type of legislative proposal on this side of the House. Can the Minister indicate as to when we might see a draft proposal at its earliest?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I find myself almost repeating some of the same things I did last time we went through this exercise, in terms of a special warrant of over $10 million. In this case, we’ve got one closer to $14 million. This is something that I know is hard to put in the books. I mean, how do you predict fires and everything else, but that said, I think for budgetary purposes, if we’ve got a repeated pattern year in and year out that we’re exceeding our budget by such a large figure, I’m hoping that the budgeters can start putting that in, into the whole cost accounting for this here...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As a follow-up to my Member’s statement earlier today, my questions will be directed to the Minister of Justice.

If my memory serves me correctly, the current Minister of Justice was interested in full-blown whistleblower protection or legislation when he was an Ordinary Member. So there should be no big surprises here in the House today. However, one of the surprises is the lack of progress this government and department has undertaken since tabling a discussion paper on whistleblower protection back in 2007.

Can the Minister of Justice please inform this House why...

I didn’t do that last math quickly enough here, but can we get a clarification on the electricity what that percent increase is over and above the base? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The purpose for my question with that is it has to do with just some facts that we do know. The fact that, number one, our inventory of public housing has not changed in the last year, so we were led to believe that we were dealing with same inventory issues. We’ve also been told in this House and other forums that we have seen roughly about an 8 percent savings in retrofits and in doing more energy-smart initiatives to make our public infrastructure that much more economic. So right away we should see savings in design. We know there’s been roughly about a 7 percent...

Really, if we start adding up the numbers, about 50 percent of this $100,000 is set aside for, basically, travel, accommodations and a function. I’m trying to see how this fits in the original bylaws of the Legislative Building Society. I have a hard time fitting that in.

There are really muddy lines in the water when it looks at legacy and I think the public has shared their concern about this a number of times as well. Let’s be clear. I’m all for having a nice time to commemorate the building. I don’t want people to think I’m a party pooper here. I’m not. Far from it. But this is now public...

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Beaulieu.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Ms. Kaylo, welcome to the House again. Good to see you.

Committee, we are on section 10 in your department summary in capital estimates, Industry, Tourism and Investment. With that, we’ll open up to general comments.

Mr. Yakeleya, that’s fair. Minister Miltenberger.