Thanks for the explanation, but I’m sorry, that’s not good enough. We have a policy which says that if money has not been appropriated, we can’t spend it. The government had to go and approve two special warrants in order to get the funding to fight the fires this summer and special warrants have very specific criteria, but they had to do a special warrant because we had no legislative sitting where we could approve the funding for fire suppression. Yet in this case, albeit it’s a relatively small amount of money, we have said oh, that’s fine, go ahead, do the renovations to Junior Kindergarten, we’ll just get the money later. Really, we should seriously be considering deleting this item because the work is completed. So why do we have to approve this funding at this point?
I’d like to ask the Finance Minister – this is a policy of Finance I thought – what does the Minister of Finance do to make sure that other departments are in line with the policies that we have for appropriations and spending before money is appropriated? Thank you.