Wendy Bisaro
Statements in Debates
Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Are there any further opening comments? Mr. Miltenberger, do you wish to respond? Mr. Aumond.
Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Miltenberger.
Thank you. Sergeant-at-Arms, would you please escort the witnesses in?
Mr. Miltenberger, would you please introduce your witnesses?
We will move to page 3, Justice, operations expenditures, community justice and corrections, not previously authorized, $1.915 million. Mr. Dolynny.
Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Do you have witnesses that you wish to bring into the House?
We’ll move on to Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2010-2011. Mr. Miltenberger, do you have opening comments?
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate from the Minister that he knows where he wants to go. Maybe the department does, but I don’t see that written anywhere. That is a bit of my concern. I don’t know if this plan identifies where we want to go. To the service gaps, if they are identified in the plan, I would like to know from the Minister whether or not the gaps identified in the plan will be addressed by the actions that are going to happen over the next three years. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 17-17(3), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 7, 2010-2011; and Tabled Document 18-17(3), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2010-2011, and would like to report progress with two motions being adopted and that consideration of Tabled Document 17-13(3) and Tabled Document 18-17(3) are concluded and that the House concur in those estimates and that two appropriation bills to be based thereon be introduced without delay. I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be...
A motion is on the floor. The motion is in order. The motion is non-debatable.
I appreciate the answer from the Minister, but I have to say that I think it’s going to take a lot longer than three years to fix the problems that we have within the territory. I appreciate that this is intended to be an action plan. There probably are very valid actions within there and things that we do need to do, but I have to ask the Minister, if we have actions that we are doing over the next three years that are unrelated to medium-term and long-term goals, which apparently we don’t have, I wonder whether or not we are doing bits and pieces without any end goal in sight. Do we really...