David Krutko

I move to report progress.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’d like to know if I can get that information, please.

This information that we’re going on was provided to committee, and I think that it’s good that we can get updated information — information that is accurate in regard to dollars that have been lapsed and carried forward. It’d be good if we can keep track of these expenditures, if they are not being expended that they’re carried forward. I’d just like to ask if we can get the most current information in regard to this project and also have a way of tracking the expenditures of this specific project.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I’ve stated in the last two days, I believe that this project will have an impact with regard to the Inuvik market. I stated that there has been private sector interest in providing this service in the Inuvik region. We have other regions throughout the Northwest Territories — Fort Simpson, Norman Wells and other places — where the private sector has taken the risk and provided office space to government.

It has been done here in the capital for a number of years, going back to when the decision was made to relocate the capital city to Yellowknife from Fort Smith. You...

Is that in regard to the pilings or substrate — the cost of that expenditure?

Mr. Chair, I find it kind of odd that these are your subcontractors, but they won’t notify your subcontractors that they are your subcontractors. So I’d like to know: when will the subcontractors know that they are the subcontractors?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’d like to move a motion.

Can the Minister tell me exactly how soon the issue will be resolved?

Mr. Chair, I’d like to thank the Minister of Public Works for the information that was provided, but I think it’s important to pass on that message to the affected parties. I know the president of the Gwich’in Tribal Council hung around here for a couple of hours the other day hoping to get a meeting with the Premier, but he wasn’t able to. I’d like to ask if you have contacted the other organizations that are concerned about this particular contract, especially those political organizations that are affected by this contract.

I think it is important that we do realize we have the private sector out there that we have to take in account. They have made a lot of capital investment in regard to properties. I know there are many questions in regard to how people are going to recoup their investments. A lot of these properties, especially in Inuvik, have been just newly acquired. These people have millions of dollars laid out over the next number of years in order to pay off those loans they got from the bank to pay down these assets. They will have to have some security over a number of years.

I think it is important...