Michael Miltenberger

Mr. Chair, we will get that detail for the Member.

I wish to table the following three documents, entitled “Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 1, 2014-2015,” “Government of the Northwest Territories Response to Committee Report 2-17(5): Report on the Review of the 2012-13 Public Accounts” and “Program Review Office Annual Report, 2013.”

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There’s going to be revenue generated out of this. The four employees that were there weren’t government employees, weren’t federal government employees, if my memory serves me correctly, and we brought them into the fold, but they’ve been operating on an equivalent amount of revenue from third-party sources. I’ll ask Mr. Aumond if he wants to add anything further and, if I’ve strayed, to make sure that we get it right.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Thursday, June 5, 2014, I will move that Bill 31, Supplementary Appropriation Act (Operations Expenditures), No. 1, 2014-2015, be read for the first time. Thank you.

Thank you. If you look across the whole spectrum of energy, including the renewables, we are spending tens of millions of dollars over the last number of years going right back to the last government where we started with the $60 million and we’ve carried on every year since, trying to make sure we keep that work going. So we are investing that kind of money and we’re continuing to invest both in the actual delivery as well as the planning and design on a go forward basis. Especially if we’re successful and confirm our $1 million O and M increase, then we’ll have the ability to look at some...

It’s a federal site. The federal government moves at its own pace and we’ve seen that across the board. In this case, they have yet to respond, and we will do what we can to encourage them to carry out and conclude a response on this issue. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We’ll provide that information for the Member.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to acknowledge that Mr. St. Germaine, on June 20th, is going to start the fruits of his many years of labour and he is going to retire. This will be the last time he will be appearing before this august body at this witness table. I just want to thank him on behalf of all of us and I just want to wish him a very long, happy and productive next stage of his life because I don’t imagine he’ll retire, but this is his last time here.

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We were waiting the PUB official ruling before we could include it and it didn’t happen in time to get it in the budget. Now that we do have it, we are coming forward in this forum.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We will continue to strongly encourage the Minister and his staff to give us the indication that we need, sign it off so we can get down to business. Thank you.