Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Williams. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. Committee, we are on page 383, sport, recreation and youth, operations expenditure summary, $6.792 million. Does committee agree?

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole back to order. Committee, as per earlier today, we’re going to continue with the main estimates for the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs. With that, we have the Minister responsible. Do you have any witnesses you would like to bring into the House, Mr. McLeod?

Committee, page 371, public safety, active positions, information item. Any questions?

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. General comments? Is committee prepared to go to detail?

When a Minister is answering a question of how we can do things better, rather than using scare tactics maybe we should maybe run things a bit better. That might be the main solution to a lot of the problem we have here.

In its final report to the Minister in 2003, the report called it “the analysis of en route alternative airport facility and requirement of associate issues.” It states and recommends that a number of improvements for extended range twin-engine operation, or ETOPS, and a capital requirement of $19.4 million to extend runway 15-33 to a 10,000-foot runway.

Can the Minister...

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. To the motion.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Abernethy.

Mr. Speaker, I’d like to continue my questions with the Minister of Transportation on my topic today, which is the Yellowknife Airport.

Clearly today, we’ve heard 20 years of a government of complacency. We’ve heard about a government of perpetual planning where the guiding principles of “delay, defer and defuse” I believe are alive and well in this government and a government that is much okay with losing $2 million a year.

Given that the Yellowknife Airport is bleeding, as I said, to the tune of $2 million annually, can the Minister inform the House what are the short- and long-term...