I’d like to thank the Minister for that, but, again, we can’t lose sight of this opportunity. We do have to do whatever we can to get the federal government to realize the importance of the renewable aspect of our economy. We do have an opportunity to really see it thrive and whatnot. I’d just like to get some assurances from the Minister in regard to the Minister of ITI’s response that there is something in the works. I think keeping us informed and trying to get a deal sooner than later will help us to be able to achieve that. With that, that’s it for my question.
Debates of June 11th, 2008
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Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
We — the
government, the appropriate departments, ITI and, where appropriate, ENR — will commit to keep the Member and the committee informed and apprised of developments in that area.
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Bob Bromley
Thank you. Any further questions? We’re on page 11-31, Wildlife, Operations Expenditure Summary: $14.737 million.
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources, Activity Summary, Wildlife, Operations Expenditure Summary: $14.737 million, approved.
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Bob Bromley
Page 11-33, Wildlife, Grants and Contributions: $231,000.
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources, Activity Summary, Wildlife, Grants and Contributions: $231,000, approved.
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Bob Bromley
Page 11-34, Wildlife, Active Positions. Any questions?
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources, Activity Summary, Wildlife, Active Positions, approved.
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Bob Bromley
Page 11-35, Wildlife, Active Positions. Any questions?
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources, Activity Summary, Active Positions, approved.
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Bob Bromley
Page 11-36, information item, Lease Commitments — Infrastructure. Questions?
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources, Lease Commitments — Infrastructure, information item, approved.
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Bob Bromley
Page 11-37,
Environment Fund. Questions?
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources, Environment Fund, information item, approved.
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Bob Bromley
Page 11-38, Work Performed on Behalf of Others, information item. Questions?
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources, Work Performed on Behalf of Others, information item, approved.
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Bob Bromley
Page 11-39, information item, Work Performed on Behalf of Others — Continued.
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources, Work Performed on Behalf of Others — Continued, information item (page 11-39), approved.
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Bob Bromley
Page 11-40, Work Performed on Behalf of Others — Continued. Questions?
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources, Work Performed on Behalf of Others — Continued, information item (page 11-40), approved.
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Bob Bromley
Page 11-41, Work Performed on Behalf of Others — Continued. Questions?
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources, Work Performed on Behalf of Others — Continued, information item (page 11-41), approved.
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Bob Bromley
Page 11-42, information item, Work Performed on Behalf of Others — Continued. Questions?
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources, Work Performed on Behalf of Others — Continued, information item (page 11-42), approved.
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Bob Bromley
Page 11-43, Work Performed on Behalf of Others — Continued. Questions? Mr. Krutko?
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
Yes; I see the Caribou Summit. We had a major conference a number of years ago. I’d just like to ask the Minister: is there any upcoming conference of that sort happening again? It is becoming a more and more apparent issue. You’re talking about a caribou strategy and whatnot, and I think you do have to run it past the people in the communities and aboriginal leaders and wildlife boards. Before you move on any type of caribou strategic plan of any sort, we should run it first past those groups. I’m just wondering: why are there no
dollars allotted for a conference to deal with that strategy?
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Mr. Chairman, the plan is to carry on the work in terms of surveys and trying to get as accurate numbers on herd sizes as possible, working with collaring and doing counts this spring. There are going to be more over the summer and fall. As well, we’ve engaged with a peer review with the Alberta Research Council, which is in the works, and we’re waiting for those results.
Once we have the most up-to-date numbers all the way across, including their planning on doing the work on the Porcupine, Cape Bathurst, Bluenose-West, Bluenose-East, Bathhurst, Ahiak
and Beverly
Kaminuriak…. As well, we’ve engaged in initial discussions with the government in Nunavut to talk about the issue that came out of the Caribou Summit in Inuvik — the calving grounds. We have a number of initiatives underway and work underway in a whole host of areas. Once those show a bit more progress, we’ll probably be in a better position to look at bringing folks back together for the Caribou Summit, part 2.
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
From that I assume the Minister’s saying there is going to be nothing happening until next year?
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
There’s going to be considerable activity in the area of caribou. We’re just not going to be in a position, in the near future, where it would make sense to have another conference before we have enough information in progress to make it worthwhile to bring all the parties back together.
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Bob Bromley
Thank you,
Mr.
Miltenberger. Anything further, Mr.
Krutko?
We’re on page 11-43, information item, Work Performed on Behalf of Others — Continued.
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources, Work Performed on Behalf of Others — Continued, information item (page 11-43), approved.
Committee Motion 47-16(2) To Reinstate $108,000 For Renewable Resource Officer Positions And Bear Fencing Program (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Bob Bromley
Thank you, committee. We’ll return to 11-7. Operations Expenditure Summary. Ms. Bisaro.
Committee Motion 48-16(2) To Defer Consideration Of Operations Expenditures (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Wendy Bisaro Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move that this committee defer further consideration of the department summary for the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources, Operations Expenditure at this time.
Committee Motion 48-16(2) To Defer Consideration Of Operations Expenditures (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Bob Bromley
Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. The motion’s on the floor and is being distributed now. The motion is in order. To the motion. Question is being called.
Motion carried.
Committee Motion 48-16(2) To Defer Consideration Of Operations Expenditures (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Bob Bromley
We’ll defer further consideration of the O&M and move on to capital for ENR. Committee agreed?
Committee Motion 48-16(2) To Defer Consideration Of Operations Expenditures (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Some Honourable Members
Agreed.