Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. You’re referencing the Power Subsidy Program, I believe. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. The motion is on the floor. Motion is in order. It’s being distributed now.

Motion is non-debatable.

---Carried

Members, we are going to page 10-17 of the main estimates. Activity summary, Education, Culture and Employment, education and culture, operations expenditure summary, $192.575 million. Are we agreed?

Questions? Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. Ms. DeLancey.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Time is up. We’ll move on to Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a couple of questions here and both of these items have been referred to in opening remarks but I want to follow up at this point. The program review office, I know from previous information that we have been advised that they are developing a work plan. I noted the other day when Mr. Ramsay was speaking that he indicated that the program review office was looking at the Business Development Investment Corporation. The last information I think that we had was that committee would be asked for input into the work of the program review office. Is BDIC on the list...

Page 5-14, Finance, activity summary, deputy minister’s office, grants and contributions, contributions, total contributions, $81.058 million. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Committee, we will defer page 1-7 until we are done with detail. We move to page 1-8, information item, Legislative Assembly, infrastructure investment summary. Any questions? Page 1-9, information item, Legislative Assembly, revenue summary. Any questions? Seeing none, we will move to page 1-10, information item, Legislative Assembly, active positions summary. Any questions? We will move to page 1-13, activity summary, Legislative Assembly, office of the Clerk, operations expenditure summary, $7.902 million.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. The motion is on the floor. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Thanks to the Minister. I’m hearing the same thing over and over. I’m hearing we have to get the project done, we have to move forward. I agree, but I don’t necessarily agree that we need to spend more money to do it. I have the same question that has already been asked and I have yet to hear an answer that makes any sense to me. We had, apparently, a negotiated, guaranteed price for this particular project. Sometimes the parameters change. I understand that. But I would like to know from the Minister what happened to that negotiated guaranteed price. Why has it gone out the window? What...