Madam Chair, I don't know if I'm in a position to qualify whether the federal requirements make sense or not. At this point I'm obligated to follow through and implement this whole explosion detection system by the deadline. We have raised this issue regarding our additional funding requirements to the federal government. We have talked to the CATSA officials over a number of months from the time this funding application was submitted in December right until this spring when it was final, and all indicators showed that the government was not going to budge on allowing us any more money to deal with some of our requirements. We have met with the federal Minister, we indicated this is one of the issues we wanted to talk about, we've also indicated to our MP that this is an issue for us. However, I have a deadline, I'm obligated to follow through to have this in place by 2006. So we feel we have exhausted all avenues to get additional funding or to get CATSA to move on what they've approved. We don't feel it's right, we are not happy with it, however, that's as far as we feel we can go and, therefore, brought it forward to FMB for discussion. Thank you.
Michael McLeod on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on October 26th, 2004. 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 25th, 2004
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