Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. I allowed a little bit of extension beyond the 10 minutes there. We can come back to you after if you like, but next on the list I have Minister Ramsay.

Question is being called.

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Does committee agree that concludes our consideration of Committee Report 1-17(2)?

Next is Environment and Natural Resources, item 13. Environment and Natural Resources, appropriation authority required, $33.142 million.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. We’re just going to back up a little bit. The Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Use of Tablet Computers in the Legislative Assembly was already read into the record in the House today. I would like to ask if there are any general comments with respect to the committee report. Okay, thank you. I’ll have the motion re-read now, then, please. We’ve established that no one wants to make any comments on the committee report, so we will have the motion re-read. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. I assume in that order. With that, I will call a brief break and we will come back and deal with those. Thank you.

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That is the technical explanation. I just wanted to put it on the record that this being a different way of doing things than normal, these are, in my opinion, valid questions. The Minister has answered it, both the Minister of the department and the Minister of Finance. Thank you for that. But let’s put it on the public record that these questions are not in any way intended to reflect negatively either on the people who hold those positions or the people in the Department of Human Resources, but just a technical question as to why these positions stayed like this. That’s not really a...

Thank you. Okay. Moving on, then. That was Transportation. We will defer that. The next item is Industry, Tourism and Investment, which is item 12 on your schedule. Industry, Tourism and Investment, appropriation authority required, $11.909 million.

I don’t have a lot of details about it either. I read about it in the newspaper. It sounded interesting because it isn’t everybody that can leave house, home, family, jobs, whatever commitments that they have, it isn’t everybody that can leave all that and go to a 28-day residential program. It’s at the community level where they can be an out-patient. They’re not in the hospital. They go to this program through the health authority and it seems to make imminent sense to me as one alternative for people to access help. It’s also for people who are sober but want to maintain that sobriety; they...

Thank you, Minister Abernethy. Anything further under Human Resources? I have a question I’d like to ask. Mr. Dolynny, if you would just take the chair for a moment so that I can ask a question on this item before we move on.