Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Once in awhile a young man comes along who redefines human spirit and truly rewrites the scriptures on humanity and giving. Today I wish to inform the Members we have such a marvel who resides in the riding of Range Lake and his name is Mr. Cole Philipp.

It all started a couple of years ago when this student was in Grade 7 in Range Lake North School and he learned about “pay it forward,” which is a movement depicted in books, TV, mainstream and film. In essence, Mr. Speaker, this pay it forward program is a means to change the lives of others by doing good deeds for...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I welcome the Minister and his delegation from Finance here with respect to the supplementary appropriation. This topic of discussion did come up when we had discussions regarding the 2012-2013 Main Estimates, when a similar item appeared under the term “other” under the amount of $8.076 million. Maybe when we get down to it and maybe if the Minister wants to do any conclusion to summarize it here, what will be the changes down the road in how this would be predicted in future main estimates, I think would be one of those questions that we’ll need to ask, or if they...

Thank you to the Minister. Recent public consultation workshops have ended here in Edmonton and they have claimed that by November of this year, November 2012, they are going to have what is called a Redevelopment Master Plan. As I said, in the website, they’re talking about still maintaining helipads for emergency services but did not talk anything about fixed wings. Can the Minister indicate if there is some type of master plan where emergency services are still going to be offered with heli services, and will there be some changes potentially in how our patients will be delivered in the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today will be for the Minister of Health and Social Services. A couple of months ago the issue of the Edmonton city airport closure and how it affected our medevac flights was brought into the House and discussed here by some of the Members, and we did get some solid responses back from the Minister of Health. Most recently, updates to the Edmonton city urban site, or website, and I quote, “The city will continue to offer land at the City Centre Airport for use of Alberta Health Services to support helipads for medevac services.” It goes on to say there...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I move that consideration of Tabled Document 18-17(3), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2010-2011, be now concluded and that Tabled Document 18-17(3) be reported and recommended as ready for further consideration in formal session through the form of an appropriation bill. Thank you, Madam Chair.

I guess the question begs to be asked. I mean, we know Bill C-10, not in effect but, obviously, could have a compounding affect if and when it does come in, and it possibly would come within the life of this budget. Have we made good main estimates to, I guess, forecast potential increases as a result of C-10, and if so, again my question is, are we anticipating shortfalls in corrections for food costs? Again, I’m trying to make sure that our estimates are as best that we can without having to see these shortfalls.

I guess a supplemental question to the Nunavut question is: Are we receiving payments on time and are our accounts in good order or good standing with the Government of Nunavut?

Thank you, Madam Chair. I move that consideration of Tabled Document 17-17(3), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 7, 2010-2011, be now concluded and that Tabled Document 17-17(3) be reported and recommended as ready for further consideration in formal session through the form of an appropriation bill.

Thank you to the Minister for that response. So just so that we’re clear here, is this a sliding scale calculation that’s done annually? Does this decrease per year or is this a very stable adjustment that we’ll see because obviously these bonds are tied more to CPI than interest? Are we as taxpayers going to be seeing this number repeat itself or is there a declining sliding calculator that goes into this number?

Thank you, Madam Chair. I do appreciate Mr. Aumond’s explanation here. Now that we’re in details here, can we get a more detailed explanation in terms of if this is a sliding calculator in terms of value that we’ll be seeing over the life of this bridge? What is the lifespan of this so-called long-term debt? I know it’s associated with the bond, so maybe a little bit of an explanation as to what this number and how this number will affect budgets moving forward.