Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I don't have a scenario to present to Members about the actual impacts of litres that were purchased and how much potential savings there are. All I can go towards right now is if we had this tool available when the prices started to go up and if we were able to purchase on the future market, just looking at the percentages that have happened, we've had some products go up by almost 50 percent from what the price was. So if we were able to buy just as it were starting to climb, we could have saved a significant amount of dollars. We had some large increases in communities in this last year that we probably would have been able to save anywhere to half of the actual increases. But, unfortunately, that's not available to us; that tool isn't there. That's why that thought was there. But looking at the legislation, we were not permitted to do so and that's why we've come forward for that now. Thank you.
Floyd Roland on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 3rd, 2006. 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
February 2nd, 2006
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