Kevin O'Reilly

Merci, Monsieur le President. I think we actually have a rule that we're not only supposed to acknowledge folks that are in our riding but, and I'm not going to pile it on just this one time I will follow the rules, but I acknowledge there's lots of friends in the House today.

I do want to recognize a page, Jaida Deutschmann. I haven't met Jaida, but I think I know her mom and dad. They're great vegetable growers; they’ve got a greenhouse and so on. And I really appreciate the work that all the pages do for us in this House. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Merci, Madam la Presidente. I move that this committee defer further consideration of the estimates for the Department of Finance at this point. Mahsi, Madam Chair.

Okay, thanks. I don't think I have any other questions. I'm just...

Okay. No, I'm sorry. Okay, look, I get that 20232024 is a guesstimate. We're budgeting ahead there. But for 20222023, the one on Roman numeral 14 seems to show actuals unless I'm totally out to lunch. So I can see where the you know, for 20212022, the $5,656,000 lines up with other income for 20212022 on page 172. But why is there just like this $7.6 million then for 20222023 in the main estimates when, you know, on page 14 it shows $2.026 million there's a contribution to the heritage fund.

Okay. So I'm just trying to understand, does the housing corp just say this is our budget, or is there any review of that by FMB and/or Department of Finance? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I started to ask some questions about the heritage fund before and then it twigged me to some I think I got an explanation for this but I'm still not quite sure about this.

So there's figures shown on the heritage fund, on page 172, then in the there's a Roman numeral 14, there's a summary of resource revenue sharing, and the contributions to the heritage fund shown on that page are not the same as what I seem to see on page 172. And they're out by, you know, literally millions of dollars. So what are these two line items actually showing and why are they different...

Thanks, Madam Chair. So the remaining 50 percent stays with the PSAC social justice fund, and they disburse that; is that correct? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Okay, thanks. And is that when the funds go out to Indigenous governments under the net fiscal benefit arrangement? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Merci, Madam la Presidente. Committee wishes to deal with Tabled Document 81319(2), 20232024 Main Estimates, with Department of Finance. Mahsi, Madam Chair

Okay, thanks. So when do we actually know how much is in the heritage fund? Thanks, Madam Chair.