Finance committee  In that $36 million, I think there were about eight or nine. It was a mixture. There was some major highway work.

Finance committee  Yes. The $33 million was made up of about eight or nine projects, but they weren't our initial priorities.

Finance committee  Well, “shovel-ready” means they have to be completed by March 31, 2011.

Finance committee  No, Mr. Chair, not in any of those projects that were approved.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, we just received word approximately three weeks ago on our stimulus funding package, which was about $36 million, but we had been dealing through the federal government since April on project applications to get them approved. There was a lot of back-and-forth and ther

Finance committee  Actually, I did not mention the Atlantic gateway in my speaking notes. It might have been in our submission. I'm glad you raised it. Yes, when you look at the funding that has gone to the Pacific gateway, it's...and that's what we modelled the Halifax gateway on, first off, and

Finance committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair. Thank you for the opportunity to present to this committee today. By way of introduction, I'll offer a few facts about the Halifax Regional Municipality, also affectionately known as HRM. Halifax has a population of 395,000 people, constituting about 42

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and good morning. As mentioned, my name is Dan English and I'm chief administrative officer with the Halifax Regional Municipality. Today I'm here on behalf of Mayor Peter Kelly, who's tied up with the Halifax explosion ceremonies that are taking place. T

Finance committee  I agree with Jamie. There haven't been international games in Atlantic Canada. I think the closest we've ever come to hosting them was in Quebec a number of years ago. So we do lack proper facilities for hosting events and training elite athletes. We're hoping that if we're succe

Finance committee  Through you, Mr. Chair, I would hope that the whole fiscal imbalance issue will be resolved. In Nova Scotia, our premier has committed to continuing any dialogue that may be necessary to resolve it. But nobody can resolve it except the federal government at this point in time. Ho

Finance committee  The province is currently undertaking an analysis of the whole gateway concept, and the Halifax Regional Municipality is working very closely with them. At this point in time, we haven't articulated exactly what we'd be looking at, but that's the idea of preparing our proposal an

Finance committee  That's correct. Both the provincial and the federal government had announced $20 million each towards that project.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm pleased to be here today on behalf of Mayor Peter Kelly, who was unable to attend this session. Thank you for the opportunity to discuss Halifax Regional Municipality's current economic and financial situation and our growing relationship with the Gover