Wendy Bisaro

Thank you. Mr. Dolynny, anything further? Thanks, Mr. Dolynny. We are on page 3-17, Human Resources, activity summary, operations expenditure summary, $6.774 million. Are we agreed?

Thank you, committee. Page 3-38, Human Resources, information item, labour relations, active positions. Any questions?

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Minister Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Moses. Mr. Abernethy.

Thanks to the Minister. My next question I was going to ask him was whether FMB had given any consideration to changing the policy and, obviously, they have not if it hasn’t gone to them already. So I need to ask the Minister if last June, that’s over six months ago, almost eight months ago now, if last June the Minister was promising us a plan to deal with this lack of flexibility, why has it taken this long to get to a point of no solution. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Abernethy.

Thank you, committee. Page 3-34, Human Resources, information item, regional operations, active positions. Any questions?

Thank you, Mr. Moses. Minister Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Mr. Dolynny has no further questions. Mr. Moses, do you have a question?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My Member’s statement today is a continuation of my budget comments from yesterday and it’s about a subject that I’ve spoken of many times before.

As I listened to the budget address last week, I was hoping to hear the Minister of Finance announce a new revenue source in our budget, but I was disappointed yet again. There is no reference to a new revenue stream in the 2013-14 operations budget. In fact, out of a 10-page budget address, only one small paragraph is devoted to revenue.

Our next year’s budget is pretty much a carbon copy of the current budget. Yet, Mr...