Concurrence on Capital Supply Resolution Continues!
It is Tuesday May 17, 2005, continues concurrence debate on Capital Supply.
If you wish you may jump forward to question from Mrs. Myrna Driedger (Charleswood) begins with:
Mr. Chairperson, I would like to ask the minister if schools are to have purchased their land before they get into actual expenditure of design?
Myrna Driedger continues questioning with “Would the minister not have felt he had some responsibility to, at least, ask some questions?” for which Bjornson always answers the same way! My question would be “What is taking you SO LONG”?
Myrna continues with a lengthy statement part of which states “He was, you know, weeks ago, told and even finally received the legal opinion that what Seven Oaks School Division was doing was illegal, and yet the minister did nothing.”
My question would be “Did the Minister Share this legal opinion (created with tax dollars) with Manitoba Justice Department and/or some Police Department to determine how illegal the crime might be?”
As a second question I ask, “Can We, the taxpayers, see this legal opinion?”
As we move on through the questioning the matter of the new West Kildonan Collegiate and the River Ridge development begins to unfold. This development involves the same cast of character including David Palubeskie of Lombard North Group as well as Superintendent: Brian O’Leary of Seven Oaks School Division.
We move on to the most ambiguous statement Bjornson has made so far, “We are not going to act in a way that will adversely affect the taxpayers.” Hello, Mr. Bjornson, it will probably cost the taxpayers a considerable sum of money to straighten out the illegal contracts the School Division has signed for the Swinford Development as well as the illegal contracts they are holding on the Grady Bend portion. I won’t even mention what it might cost to straighten out all the Land Titles involved in the entire development. Perhaps we should never pass the Capital Supply budget unless Bjornson can tell us exactly what all these legal expenses might amout to?????
Read On and Judge for Yourself!
I think we can soon ask Mr. Bjornson and the Seven Oaks School Board to resign!
Maybe we will find out in the next portion of the Committee of Supply debate!