David Krutko

Page 9, Legislative Assembly, capital investment expenditures, Office of the Clerk, not previously authorized, $254,000.

Deputy minister of Finance, Mr. Neudorf.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. At this time I’d like to ask the Minister sponsoring the bill if he would bring in any witnesses. Mr. Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Welcome witnesses. If we can move to page 5, 2008-2009 Supplementary Appropriation No. 4, Executive, operations expenditures, Financial Management Board Secretariat, government accounting, not previously authorized, $9.348 million. Mr. Bromley.

Does the committee agree the review of the Tabled Document 35-16(3), Supplementary Appropriation No. 1, 2009-2010, is concluded?

Services to the public, not previously authorized, $447,000.

I will try to rephrase my question. My question was, can the government consider putting into its business plan an estimate for gravel road source to 177 costs about $1 million a kilometre where to Nahanni Butte we are spending $500,000 a year to build that road to that community? I would like to know exactly using that ball park number, would the government consider putting forward in its business plans that it is going to cost $1 million a kilometre to build roads to gravel sources in our communities?

Mr. Speaker, as we all know, this is a joint appointment. I believe the last time it was advertised in the papers here. Would it also be advertised in the Nunavut papers? Also, would interested groups be able to take part by way of aboriginal organizations being notified about this appointment?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. If we are talking about access road 177 which I believe is 20-odd kilometres, same as the road to Aklavik’s gravel source -- I think it was 22 kilometres -- can we use a rough ball estimate for these access roads? Are we talking $1 million a kilometre? If that is the case, could that be the basis of building a road from Aklavik to the gravel source in regards to the gravel source based on that estimate of $18 million for 20 kilometres?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Minister can also assist me by way of the community businesses and also finding ways of why they are not being considered when it comes to tenders, which could be either sole sourced or basically as and when tenders, where these businesses are already existing. You don’t need somebody driving from Inuvik or flying from Inuvik to provide a plumbing job where you have a plumber in the community. Why is it that you are not considering local tenders? If you are not doing that, I would like to ask the Minister, can he talk to the people in the Inuvik office? Why are they...