Jane Groenewegen
Statements in Debates
Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development, not previously authorized, $200,000.
Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. Roland.
Thank you, Mr. Roland. Education, Culture and Employment, operations expenditures. Mr. Pokiak.
In closing, Mr. Speaker, I am all for efficiency, and apart from making our government more transparent, doing more business in public would avoid the duplication of effort on the part of our busy Members, including me. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Roland.
Total department, special warrants, $273,000, not previously authorized, $81,000.
Thank you, Ms. Lee. Mr. Roland.
Thank you, Mr. Roland. Mr. Hawkins.
I object to this, because firstly it takes too much of our time. I represent a very busy riding, and when session is on I must apologize to my constituents in that on days when we meet for 12 hours, I often don't even get a chance to return their phone calls.
I'm not complaining about hard work, but I do resent redundant work. For example, we often go through things like supplementary appropriations or bills in painstaking, line-by-line detail in committee, just before it comes to the House to go into Committee of the Whole, where we could theoretically ask exactly the same questions....
Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Roland.