When we broke, we

agreed to continue on with Education, Culture and Employment.

We can turn to page 7-5,

Infrastructure Acquisition Plan. With that, I’d like to ask the Minister if he’ll be bringing any witnesses.

Yes, Mr. Chair.

Is the committee agreed

that the Minister can bring his witnesses?

Sergeant-at-Arms, please

escort the witnesses in. For the record, Mr. Minister, could you introduce your witnesses, please.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. To my

left I have the deputy minister, Dan Daniels, and to my right I have the director of strategic and business services, Mr. Paul Devitt.

Thank you, Mr. Minister.

Welcome, witnesses.

We’re on page 7-5, Infrastructure Acquisition Plan, Education, Culture and Employment, Total Capital Assets: $21.728 million. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On École

Allain St-Cyr, phase 2, I’m just wondering if there are reasons why that has been delayed a year and what the role is of our partnerships in funding this project.

The Minister of

Education.

Mahsi, Mr.

Chair. I’ll

certainly get Mr. Devitt to elaborate a bit after I do my opening on this particular item.

We are in consultation with the federal government, because they do have a role to play in this particular second-phase project we’re referring to. From my understanding, my department has met with the federal counterparts just last week. There is ongoing consultation with them.

At the same time, if I can just get Mr. Devitt to elaborate in more detail about what actually took place and where we’re at.

Mr. Devitt.

Thanks for that background. Do we

know what the various roles in funding this will be for the different groups and governments involved here?

Will there be some non-government

dollars as well, or will these be pretty much federal and territorial dollars?

That’s fine. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I did have a

question on this project as well. I was given to understand, I think through an agreement with the Commission Scolaire and probably Heritage Canada or the federal government — and it may have had to do with the court case as well, actually — that this project was supposed to be completed by 2011 or 2012. That’s not what’s indicated here. Could I get a date of completion? There’s $13.973 million in future years. Is that all in 2011–12, or is that over a number of years? Is there a particular reason why this project is not going to be completed until after 2011?

The Minister of

Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Lafferty.

Mahsi, Mr.

Chair. As

Mr. Devitt indicated, I think we’re at the preliminary stages with the federal government. We just gave them a schematic design. There’s been a consultation with them through teleconference. We did highlight the future costs of $13 million, as the Member indicated. At this stage we are waiting on the federal government to get back to us so that we can proceed forward. That’s our situation right now as it stands.

So I guess from that answer, then,

that there’s no estimated date of completion for this project.

As it stands now, we don’t

have the actual date of completion, but we will formulate the schedule once it’s confirmed by the federal government, their commitment of funding, and also from our department once we move forward. Then we’re going to have those dates for the Members.