Robert C. McLeod

That is for the fire marshal’s office and other emergency management functions of this division. Thank you.

This is for both and it’s based on standard guidelines that we use and as you can see the funding has increased this year to the communities for their water and sewer funding. Some of it would be because of the communities... Well, the rising prices of everything is basically what it comes down to.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There was a wide range of concerns raised, but I think for the most part, all of the Members had the same concerns. I am going to go down the list here and try to speak to as many of them as I can. We will obviously have an opportunity when we get into detail to ask individual questions on each individual area.

We do appreciate some of the good comments we have been hearing as far as some of the work that MACA is doing, some of the investment in youth. Obviously, it is a priority with this department and with the government. We are starting to see a lot more money...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Member makes some good points. This is something we’ll have to look at in the future. I did make a commitment to the Member that I’ll gather some information. I’ll work with my colleagues at ENR and ITI and see about coming up with a plan. This is something that we will have to give some serious consideration to in the future. A lot of the harvesting out there just concerns Commissioner’s land. There’s a lot of harvesting out there on private claimed land. There’s a lot of harvesting out there on federal land. I did commit to the Member that I will work with my...

I apologize for that, Mr. Chairman. I thought we were on a different page. The $200,000 is the money that is identified for communities that provide ground ambulance services. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. One of the reasons that they’re asked to come in all the time is just to re-establish that they’re still the owners of the property. But I’ll commit to the Member that we’ll find ways to work with them, so we can simplify the process where they’re not going to have to be coming in all the time. If there’s something that we can work out, then we’ll try and accommodate them to make it a lot easier. Thank you.

Yes, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We don’t have those numbers right now as to what it costs us to do those assessments, but we can attempt to gather that information and I will pass it on to the Member.

Mr. Chairman, training firefighters to fight fires is a huge priority. I think you will see as we go further into the document that there is $150,000 identified through the School Community Government to assist with training firefighters. We have an assistant fire marshal in the regions that will work with communities to ensure that they are trained to fight fires. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the regional offices will usually determine how many summer students that they might need and then they would just fund it themselves. Thank you.