David Krutko

Okay. With that, we’ll take a short break and then begin with the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs.

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Moving on to the next page, Municipal and Community Affairs, active position, directorate, information item. Any questions?

I just have a question on two capital items. The $200,000 grants and contributions and under other expenses, could you give me a breakdown of where those dollars are being expended?

Next on the list is Mr. Bromley.

Okay. We can move to page 6-7, department summary. With that, we’ll defer until we have considered detail. So if we can move to the following page. Does committee agree to defer?

More of a comment. Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, lands administration, operations expenditure summary, $2.568 million.

Mr. Hawkins.

I’ll call Committee of the Whole to order. Today we have under consideration Bills 2, 4, 7, Tabled Document 62-16(4); Minister’s Statement 47-16(4); and Committee Report, 5-16(4). What is the wish of the committee? Mrs. Groenewegen.

Contributions, $390,000.

Mr. Chairman, one of the other issues from the fire department is making sure that we have the equipment or have the fire department equipped to deal with such types of rescues and, more importantly, search and rescue and also river rescues. I am just wondering. Has the government looked at the possibility of looking at supplying or finding ways that the volunteer firefighters in the communities can be equipped to look more than just responding to fires but also being a response to search and rescue?