David Ramsay

Thanks, committee. I would now ask you to please turn back to page 5-7, and that is the department summary, Finance, operations expenditure summary, $76.528 million.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’m just wondering, again, this isn’t in this year’s budget, but under the contract registry there are two items for food catering for NAWS II. One’s for NAWS II and the other one is for NAWS II feast. That totals about $70,000. I’m just wondering what event did we cater that cost $70,000. Thank you.

Page 5-17, Finance, activity summary, fiscal policy, operations expenditure summary, $1.267 million.

Mr. Speaker, I’ve got some questions today and suppose I’ll ask them of the Premier. In getting back to my Member’s statement, I wanted to talk about sole-sourcing contracts to former deputy ministers. I’d like to begin by asking the Premier if there is any political direction given from his Cabinet when it comes to sole-sourcing contracts to former deputy ministers. Thank you.

Thank you. Mr. Sergeant-at-Arms. Thank you, Mr. Minister, and if I could just maybe have you introduce your staff for the record.

Page 5-33, Finance, information item, Liquor Revolving Fund, active positions.

I guess it relates to this, too, so I’ll ask it. In that contract registry and reporting system it shows $1.238 million under contracted services. Now, I know there’s only a portion of it that shows up there, but under the operations expenditure listing for the department, that number is $1.224 million. So we’re about $14,000 out, and I’m just wondering why the actuals that show up in the 2008-09 Main Estimates in this book don’t correlate with the contract registry. It’s out by about $14,000, and I’m just wondering why that is.

Page 5-14, Finance, activity summary, deputy minister’s office, grants and contributions, contributions, $37.122 million.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. We’ll open the floor up now for general comments. Or actually, no, Mr. Minister, did you want to bring in some witnesses?

Page 5-30, office of the chief information officer, information item, active positions.