I call the meeting to order.
At the last meeting, Mr. Falcon Ouellette had the floor.
On the agenda that went out, we proposed that we would deal with the budget for the pre-budget consultation process first, and then we would come back to Mr. Caron's motion.
Mr. Falcon Ouellette, you have the floor to start.
On the budget, I think I reported previously that the subcommittee on committee budgets of the liaison committee had asked us to do everything we could to reduce this to below $190,000. The library and the clerk worked at this, and we made some changes in the original proposal that would reduce it down to $182,146. That would, over a three-week period, get us to all the capital cities, with the exception that we'd go to Kelowna instead of Vancouver. I know not everybody is happy with that. I think there will be some speaking up on it.
In any event, in order to have any hope of this committee travelling to do its pre-budget consultations, to travel to the regions, we really need a motion to discharge the original motion, which put us at $241,000, and then a new motion on three of the budgets to bring us down to $182,000-plus. I feel very confident we can get that through the budget liaison committee.
We need a motion or agreement to discharge the original budget. Then we'll come in with a new one.
Agreed?
Mr. Aboultaif.