Robert C. McLeod

Mr. Chair, actually, I think the Member is free to ask questions on any page he chooses. If he chooses to ask them on this page, then I will do my best to try and answer it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The $90,000 was money that we did receive from the federal government. Some of this I think we distributed to some communities to help with their emergency action plans. Joint Emergency Preparedness is the name of the program. This program was discontinued by the federal government and they’re looking at replacing it with a program called the Disaster Mitigation Program now. We’re not quite sure of the details. We have some discussions with my federal counterpart, Mr. Lebel, and we’re hoping to get some information soon as far as what this program consists of and what...

We always act in the best interest of community governments.

Mr. Chair, as far as new initiatives and youth go, we’re just continuing to enhance the programs that we already have in place. Obviously, we are always looking at ways we can improve the programs we provide to our youth. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Member raises a number of fairly good points. I do want to assure the Member that through the departmental working group, we are looking at a number of things that she actually spoke to. She talked about equipment and that’s one thing they’re looking at, maintenance, administration, training, planning, budgeting and operations. I take the Member’s point very seriously, though, that we do have some folks that are responding to accidents outside their boundaries and they are actually paying for it. So the Member’s point is well taken and I can assure the Member that as...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We’ll put some information together for the Member and he’ll have all the information he needs on the questions that he’s asked.

No, not for the Arctic Energy Alliance.

I’m not sure if the Member is referring to the same document that we have. Maybe he can explain himself.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. There was a reorg a few years ago and I think we had a new public safety division, and I believe we’re staffed with four members in that division now. The Member asked if I feel that it’s important that we try to get more resources and more staff members, but I think she was asking on the assumption that we had one staff member there. We do have four and they’re doing a pretty good job working with communities and trying to get their emergency plans and everything all up to date. The Member is absolutely correct. We’ve been hearing it here in the last four or five weeks...

I’m not sure exactly what the fee structure is. I don’t have that information with me. As far as the last time it was reviewed, I said before that I’m not sure of that, either. So we will gather the information and share it with the Member.