Thank you, Madam Chair. We commit the full value of the contract – it’s a short-term contract – then it’s paid out on an as required basis. If you need a whole whack of aircraft support – for example, they had huge grass fires in Alberta in February of last year – you have to put your resources to work. You never know what the demand is going to be. If we weren’t doing this interim appropriation it wouldn’t be a question; it would be in the budget, we would be doing the work. The fact that we’re doing a three-month interim appropriation brings into question only for that reason why this isn’t part of the main estimates. Well, it normally would be and we would commit the money and have it available to meet the demand.
Michael Miltenberger on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 10th, 2012. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 9th, 2012
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