Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the additional information. The Minister is right; a supplementary appropriation is almost entirely for situations, or events, or expenses, that we accrue after the fact, but this is a contribution to an outside organization. This is not a government activity like catching up on retroactive pay for a collective agreement, for instance, or paying for forest fires that we have no way of predicting. I guess that is where I would still query whether this is an appropriate expenditure to bring to the Assembly, given that it is a contribution to an outside organization, and it has that element of prior commitment to it, which I know, for any other organization that might otherwise come to government for assistance prior commitment, is an almost automatic rejection. So on that basis, again, I would query, is this in line with normal convention, and practice, for a contribution to an outside organization, even one as honoured and esteemed by this assembly of the Tlicho? Thank you.
Bill Braden on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on October 26th, 2005. 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 26th, 2005
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