Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My next question deals with the whole idea of supplementaries, but that the supplementaries being used by particular Ministers to ensure that certain projects are developed in their particular ridings and where money has been moved once it has been identified for new dollars, have been identified particularly in areas that are not really a priority item of this government such as road maintenance, upgrade of airports. So, I would like to ask the Minister, with the practice of the Ministers having the upper hand because they do approve the supplementaries through FMBS and also as the Minister of Finance and knowingly that this will be controversial to not only Members of this House but to the public at large by seeing how some of these supplementary appropriations are being used in a time of restraint and why is that?
David Krutko on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on October 23rd, 1997. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
October 23rd, 1997
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