David Ramsay

Thank you, Madam Chair. I move that $100,000 be deleted from the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs regional operations activity in Supplementary Appropriation, No. 1, 2006-2007 dealing with the Icicle Inn.

Total department, $17.203 million.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’m just wondering, again, I want to know why this amount, the $320,000 appears in the supplementary appropriation given the fact that it’s public knowledge that now Public Works and Services has $320,000 earmarked to study office space in Inuvik and something about that just doesn’t make sense to me how Public Works and Services could go out and put a number, suggest a number of $320,000, put it in a public document and then go out and issue a tender for completion of the work. To me it’s saying we’ve got $320,000, why don’t you just come and get it? It just doesn...

Mahsi, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. Minister.

Yes thanks, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I think the $40.3 million that’s being carried over this year, as I mentioned, causes some concern for me and it perhaps causes some concerns for other Members, but I think that the Minister has to provide some more leadership and some more direction to the departments in order for them to carry out the work that they’re supposed to carry out. As is evidenced by the carryovers this year, that work is not getting done. I’d like the Minister to give us what his plan is to make sure that departments are carrying out this work, otherwise why should we...

Page 27, Education, Culture and Employment, capital investment expenditures, not previously authorized, education and culture, $12.336 million.

Thank you very much for the suggestion, Mr. Roland. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess this is nothing new for the Minister to hear this; the Minister of ENR, that is. It goes back to some comments I made in the House earlier this week with caribou and how it is that we seem to be just having a haphazard approach to looking at and counting herds or caribou from east to west. If you look at the numbers, we are going to spend $550,000 on a Caribou Management Strategy, but we really haven’t had a meeting with all the stakeholders involved, a sit down, a heart to heart with everybody. It hasn’t happened. Here we are; we're going to go out and spend...

Mahsi, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. Minister.