Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. I’d like to ask the Minister if he would like to bring witnesses into the Chamber.

Agreed. We will proceed after a brief recess. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Any further general comments? No further general comments. I will ask the Minister if he would like to summarize a response to the Member’s general comments.

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. What’s the wish of the committee? Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. General comments. Next I have Mr. Blake.

I was hoping that the Minister would give me an amount so I could figure it out per kilometre. If it was a high amount, I was going to tell him that’s exactly why we can’t afford to spend more. If it was a low amount, I was going to tell him that’s why we can’t afford anything else because we can’t even keep with the roads we’ve got. I was ready for it.

Mr. Speaker, when we built the Deh Cho Bridge, it was self-financing. Does the Minister see any aspect of self-financing from the use of the Inuvik-Tuk highway? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Any further general comments? Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In follow up to my Member’s statement today, I have some questions for the Minister of Transportation. In this tentative agreement we have with the federal government for the construction of a highway from Inuvik to Tuk, I would like to ask the Minister, in his discussions with the federal government, has the topic of the ongoing cost of the operations and maintenance of that highway ever been raised. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. General comments. Next I have Mr. Nadli.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again I must preface my statement with all due respect to the folks of the Beaufort-Delta. We, as keepers of the public purse, have a job here to keep the public interest, and the accountability and transparency for the expenditure of government funds. We have an obligation to question that.

The cost-benefit analysis of a piece of infrastructure of this expense at this time in this area needs to be very critically looked at, and I do hear the plight of the Inuvik area, the Inuvik region, in terms of the economic downtown, the conditions there. I do not think that a $300...