Thank you, Madam Chair. What is here in the supplementary appropriation bill in the area of resource development and impacts is our first go at staffing up our departments, particularly this one item with the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development, to be prepared for the wrapping up of preparation for the pipeline, the regulatory end. We feel that's a minimum. There are other areas that we know as a government we need to focus on, and that is in the planning process. But we felt that this was a minimum, that there needed to be that coordination the Member was talking about so that all departments and levels of government are prepared for the next phase, but at minimum it was felt that this portion needed to proceed, so that we can be at the front end starting to be prepared for the regulatory process. At this time, we don't have that ability within the existing budgets of the department. So it is something that we, as a government, are not forgetting about. It's not on the radar in the sense of this supplementary appropriation, but it is on the planning calendar overall through government trying to ensure that we are going to be prepared and wrapping up. So departments have been told that we needed more coordination and we needed to go forward in a business plan process to begin to be prepared in those other areas Members highlighted. Thank you.
Floyd Roland on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Others Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on June 1st, 2004. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Others Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Others Matters
June 1st, 2004
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