David Krutko

Mr. Chairman, in regards to another aspect of the problems we are seeing especially on the Dempster Highway, the collapses that we have seen over the years in regards to the culverts that have collapsed, I think I asked for a report from the department. The majority of those culverts are almost 35 years old. They were put in place when the Dempster was built. They are in the process of having to replace a lot of these culverts. Again, because of the lifespan of these culverts, there is a risk associated with the public travelling that highway where we have had collapses. I would like to know...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’d like to know, with the Building Canada Fund, what’s the availability of other communities to be able to take advantage of this program in regard to the Community Access Road Program, such as the community of Aklavik.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for either the Minister of Transportation or Housing, whichever Minister wants to take it. I’ve raised this issue before in the House. It’s about an elderly gentleman in Tsiigehtchic, Mr. George Niditchie, who is 73 years old and just got out of the hospital not that long ago from frostbite, suffered as a result of the problem he’s facing with flooding around his home. His home is across the river from Tsiigehtchic. The problem arises due to overflow coming along the Dempster Highway and down towards his place. I noticed that the overflow is now running...

Mr. Chairman, in to the ferry crossings, I know the Minister is aware the letters that he has received from a family in Tsiigehtchic who basically has fished there. The family had that area and fished on that side of the Mackenzie River for years, long before the highway was even there. Now they are being encroached on by the ferry landings, which has moved towards the individual’s harvesting area where they set their nets and that. I know there was a letter sent to you as Minister. I already spoke to you about this matter. Again, I think this government should do everything it can to avoid...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to ask the department if they can get the information based on the affirmative action numbers that are on this chart, P1s, P2s, P3s, and also if they can identify anybody with a disability or, basically, female management.

Thank you for the 16 cents price reduction, but they are still paying $1.56 a litre in those communities. That didn’t really do much by way of bringing them in line with other communities where they have to pay $1.20 a litre. Again, that is neither here nor there. How come we can do it for government departments but we can’t do it for agencies and communities to help them deal with this issue such as departments?

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...