Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, on an annual basis, we work with the departments to try to come up with their costs they will need to run the programs and services identified for that year. One of the things we do, again, is we do our work and look at the existing costs of services out there. The Member is right, though; we will be having to look at and address the issue of the increased price of fuel. That is something we have directed the departments to live within their means at this point because we knew that the prices were changing quite substantially; either on the high side or dropping. We're going to have to wait for actual costs to come back and address them at that point. We haven't tried to do things in the sense of providing departments with funding up front on an estimate basis, because the prices were fluctuating too much when we put our plans together. Thank you.
Floyd Roland on Question 327-15(3): Monitoring Energy Consumption
In the Legislative Assembly on October 28th, 2004. See this statement in context.
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Question 327-15(3): Monitoring Energy Consumption
Item 7: Oral Questions
October 27th, 2004
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