Daryl Dolynny

Thank you. Page 10-25, Education, Culture and Employment, information item, advanced education, active positions. Any questions? Seeing none, page 10-27, Education, Culture and Employment, activity summary, income security, operations expenditure summary, $39.668 million. Does committee agree? Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. On general comments I have Mr. Bouchard.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Contributions on, again, pages 10-18, 10-19, 10-20, total contributions. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. For that question for the attendance, we’ll go to Mr. Lafferty.

So I guess the question I have for the Minister is: Is there a plan of action or a formal review in the works for the department in looking at runway expansions, not necessarily only in the Yellowknife area but an opportunity to put up corridors for opportunity for future business, be it tourism, be it working with the Department of National Defence? When was the last time a review of this nature was done for thorough analysis, Madam Chair?

Madam Chair, again I appreciate the fact that the Minister does have a list of supporting organizations that are recipients of funding. My specific question is for the Artists Run Community Centre. What does the Minister intend to tell this group of artists – and they are a fairly large group of artists – what kind of support can we provide them and facilitating and fostering their field so that really it goes in line with what this government is doing, trying to promote the work of artisans and yet there’s no facility for them to be promoted in? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. To respond we’ll go to Mr. Devitt.

I’d like to welcome the witnesses into the House. I hope you’ve caught your breath. I saw you racing in here on your bike, so that’s good. We’re going to be opening up the floor here to general comments. What we’ve been doing here is opening comments to the Members, and the Minister will have an opportunity for reply at the end. We’d ask that the Minister take notes and hope to address the individual Members if there are specific questions in the opening comments. With that, I will open up the floor to general comments on Transportation starting with Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Ms. Iatridis.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. For that we’ll go to Mr. Devitt.