Thank you, Mr. Chair. I find myself almost repeating some of the same things I did last
time we went through this exercise, in terms of a special warrant of over $10 million. In this case, we’ve got one closer to $14 million. This is something that I know is hard to put in the books. I mean, how do you predict fires and everything else, but that said, I think for budgetary purposes, if we’ve got a repeated pattern year in and year out that we’re exceeding our budget by such a large figure, I’m hoping that the budgeters can start putting that in, into the whole cost accounting for this here. But that’s not my question.
My question has to deal with we’ve got a severely aging fleet of our CL-215s that we continuously hear that they’re at the end of their lifecycle, or very near to the end of their lifecycle, and there is a point in time that that aging fleet is going to start costing us more money than making us money. My questions here today really revolve around are we starting to see the brunt of an aging fleet that are adding more dollars at the end of the year as a result of not dealing with the issue sooner than later.
Can the Minister maybe elaborate if the department has done any calculations whatsoever? Have there been extra costs attributed because of this aging fleet?