Thank you. I think the Member makes a very valid point and certainly we have much more internal data. The Member knows, for instance, just to use an example, in the maximizing northern employment program we generate a lot of internal data to measure, for instance, how our money is being spent and the number of trainees that go through a program. I can go region by region, pick the private sector partnership fund, I can pick the partner, the region, find out what communities, find out the project total in terms of expenditure. If I go through one line here and look at one enterprise that was partnered with us in class 1 driver training I can tell you that there were 15 trainees that applied for training and that there were 15 actual trainees and the project was completed and I can tell you the dollar expenditures on that project. I am more than willing to share that kind of information with committee. I think we tend to get bogged down in information, but I assure the Member that we do track this and it's important to make sure that where public funds are being expended, they're being expended for the purposes that had been intended and that we actually track and ensure that there is completion of these projects and where we set out to train people, that's actually taking place. I certainly take the Member's point.
Brendan Bell on Committee Motion 3-15(3): To Delete $120,000 From The Financial Management Board Secretariat Budgeting And Evaluation Re Foregone Interest, Defeated
In the Legislative Assembly on March 22nd, 2004. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 3-15(3): To Delete $120,000 From The Financial Management Board Secretariat Budgeting And Evaluation Re Foregone Interest, Defeated
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