Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, we go through these budget amounts and it seems like a number we are picking on is 10 percent. To me, this is not 10 percent of the budget. We talked about a little bit of money for the community access road projects, some $800,000. In that project, we took $100,000 out which is more than 10 percent. To be consistent here, let's be consistent across the board and everybody gets cut by 10 percent. What you can see is we can't play the game of pick and choose. Have cuts right across the board. We have a department that has a $30 million budget and we are taking $77,000. That's peanuts. That's just having fewer helicopter hours. Instead of using helicopter hours at year end to go out to a lake to go fishing or take a tour to see where the wildlife is, maybe we just hold off on one of those helicopter trips and we will save ourselves $77,000. I think we can do better than $77,000 for a forest management item, which is a $30 million budget item. Come on, let's be fair. You are telling us you can take $100,000 from an $800,000 budget item, which is there to assist small communities, but when you have a $30 million budget, you take $77,000 out of it. They are not cutting deep enough. Are you going to go back and cut a little deeper in this portfolio?
David Krutko on Bill 18: Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 2003-2004
In the Legislative Assembly on June 12th, 2003. See this statement in context.
Bill 18: Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 2003-2004
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
June 12th, 2003
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