David Krutko

Mackenzie Delta

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Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 27)

Agreed. Moving on to executive, page 5-47, operations expenditure summary. Mr. Bromley.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 27)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think that it’s time that this government did an assessment of this program and federal programs and see exactly who is benefiting from them and also who is losing out on these programs simply because they’re having some financial problems or they don’t have the capacity to do it, because I think from small communities that is one of the core problems we see in our communities, is they don’t have capacity, they don’t have the human resources, they can’t take advantage of federal programs. So as a government I’d like to request from the Minister if they can commit to...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 27)

Mr. Chairman, I would like to move a motion.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 27)

Minister of Housing.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 27)

Mr. Speaker, one of the main reasons is because the communities either had substantial deficits, which tells me that they are in trouble. I think that we have to find a way with working with those communities that are in trouble, finding a way that we can match funds with them or have funds. Right now what I see going on with the government is that they have surplus funds in certain projects that they are going to bring forward and they are going to subsidize certain projects which are presently on the books. For me, that is not fair. I would like to know, what is this government doing to work...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 27)

Minister of Housing.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 27)

Okay if we can move to page 5-43, corporate summary, operations expenditure summary. Again this is an information item.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 27)

I move that we report progress.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 26)

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. Welcome, witnesses. With that, Mr. Lafferty, you can respond to Mr. Beaulieu’s questions.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 26)

Go ahead.