David Krutko

That’s exactly my point. Under the conventional system of putting this into the GNWT capital planning process, it ain’t going to see the light of day. Yet the Deh Cho Bridge was billed for $165 million by simply passing an act in this House. Will the Minister bring forward a Peel River Bridge Act so that we can do it under the same circumstances as the Deh Cho Bridge Corporation?

Last question. In regard to this project coming forward by way of a supp, why was it not built into the capital planning process you’re talking about developing the Energy Plan, looking at the different plans that have been put in place by the government so you actually have a plan of how we’re going to lay out this infrastructure and not just pick out a couple projects at a time? I still feel this government has to make more investment in the northern part of the Territories. All the projects to date have been south of Yellowknife, around Yellowknife and Hay River and Fort Smith. I’d just...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Tomorrow, March 11th, snowmobilers from Fort McPherson will be skidooing to the headwaters of their traditional territory, the Peel River watershed. The Tetlit Gwich’in Council and Na-Cho Nyak Dun have spent many months planning this snowmobile trip, originally planning to leave Fort McPherson and ending in Mayo. Due to unforeseen circumstances and time shortage, the trip will see that both parties meet halfway between Fort McPherson and Mayo at the headwaters of the Peel River watershed.

The purpose of this trip is to revisit the traditional trails that were once...

Maybe the Minister can elaborate on the Aklavik project, since you mentioned it. What project is it?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It’s in regard to these type of projects I think that we have to seriously start implementing these type of projects in high cost communities. No offence to Fort Smith; we’ve made a major capital investment last year in regard to electric heat, putting electric heat in a bunch of public facilities and a lot of infrastructure dollars went into that, and also into the heating systems we see here in Yellowknife, now Hay River, Fort Smith. But I think we have to do something in regard to the high cost communities in the northern part. I mean, the northern part, north of...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In this department item we talk about marines for boats and whatnot, but a lot of our communities still depend on large traffic such as NTCL to resupply a lot of our communities. I raised this question in the House before in regards to NTCL being able to tie up their barges and unload freight and that in the community of Aklavik. They do have a little marine docking system but it is mostly for small boats. I was talking with the larger vessels like NTCL, because they do have a problem loading and unloading. It all depends on the water levels. There is no real docking...

I just have a question regarding the resurfacing of the airports. Are there plans not only for extension but also for resurfacing the airports and using different types of products for the resurfacing of airports? How often do you apply the different chemicals that you use to do the resurfacing? There are a lot more turbo prop aircraft flying into those airports and with the gravel airports most people do apply different products. I’d like to know how often or if the airport extensions will include the resurfacing of those airports or an appliance of some sort of chemical to protect the...

Again, just following up on Ms. Bisaro’s question, why is it that we gave every department an increase in regards to their expenditures so they don’t have to come forward for more supps by $10 million? But yet, here we are again with $20 million in supps. The whole intention of that was so this type of activity doesn’t happen, so we are not here talking about something that happened in 2007. I’d like to know exactly why we would allow that decision to be made, assuming that we won’t have these types of situations which we are dealing with today. But yet we are here again dealing with a $23...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, I would like to thank the Members that did speak in support of the motion. Again, this motion is directed to the small communities. I think that this issue has been around since the 14th Assembly. I know that special committee, that first small communities, filed a report and this was one of the recommendations which instrumented they put in place main street chipseal program for small communities and which it only served basically in one Legislature, which was the 15th Assembly. I think because of it only having to take place in one Assembly, other communities...

Are there any plans to do any possible extension on the airport in Aklavik?