Thank you, Madam Chair. I am, I hope, dealing with the figure on page 24, $1.5 million. I have questions about whether or not we are increasing this government's ability to expend. As far as I am concerned, whether you are lending money out, or whether you have spent it, you do not have it any longer and so you did in fact spend it. Whether you get it back in ten years or five years, you do not have it any longer. My question would be, does Cabinet or anyone have a maximum in this particular program, that we would lend out? In other words, can Rankin Inlet come back and ask for another $3 million this year? Can Tuktoyaktuk ask for $3 million? What is the line that we draw this program at? If I may use an example Madam Chair, I believe the Minister said it is quite a popular program. I also heard at one point in time that access roads was a popular program, but we decided to put a ceiling on that popular program, so that only so much money was spent on access roads. Are we following the same process here?
Vince Steen on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on May 28th, 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
May 28th, 1997
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