Michael McLeod

Mr. Chairman, of course we would commit to providing and doing a more in-depth action than what we have here. There’s a lot of work that we’ve agreed to embark on in areas of what’s best practices within our own organizations. We are looking at bringing in another position to help us develop a long-term plan. There are many parts to the Green Light, some with other departments. If the Member feels that we are falling short, we certainly would accept any recommendations he has and move it to a move rigorous process, as he’s indicated, that would satisfy the Members of this House.

Mr. Chairman, I am not sure why the Member would be questioning if we had 2,200 kilometres of road. It certainly can’t go missing. I would like to confirm that is the number that we have in the NWT and roughly 800 of those kilometres are chipsealed. It is our goal and our intention to provide a chipseal or some kind of stable topping on our roads. We recognize that it allows for a better preservation of our highways, so that is the intention.

As for how long it takes, it is a long-term goal and as we move forward, as we progress with the reconstruction, we intend to follow with either a...

I’m not sure if I’m the person to be asking about the recreational policy. We do have a very attractive arrangement and it’s at a reduced rate as it is. It’s on airport land so the decision is ours.

We do have a design. We do have a design that consists of a moveable concrete steel pad at the landings so that we can deal with the different fluctuating levels that we have been challenged with, and we will have that discussion with the people of that area, the Gwich’in people and the people of the communities of Tsiigehtchic and Fort McPherson and the leadership from that area as to how they view this. We wanted to be ready to have that in place for discussion with all the information by the next go round on the water licence. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, we do have a document that was put together entitled Green Light that was shared with the Members. It was put together primarily by the Department of Transportation. As to where we’re at on some of the initiatives in it, I’ll have Mr. Neudorf speak to that.

Mr. Chairman, we certainly can provide all the different detail the Member is asking on Highway No. 7. It is quite significant. I can assure the Member that we have $9 million worth of work that has to be done. Some of it is as a result from a carry-over from last year and some of it was budgeted for this year. We have a long-term plan. There are quite a different number of components that are going to be targeted for construction. We could put that in written form and provide it to the Member.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That request has come in on several occasions. We feel we’ve given a very attractive deal to the golf association and, no, we’re not considering transferring it to the city.

Mr. Chairman, of course, we appreciate the Member’s comments and his desire to be creative. We can look at it. We can do a quick analysis maybe on one portion from Tulita to Wrigley, for example, and provide that information to the Members, whoever is interested to see it. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, we had some challenges to fill the position while it was located in the Member’s riding. We will certainly consider relocating it back at some point as the restructuring is done to deal with the management of the change in the ferry systems in the southern part of the Territories. I guess, more specifically, when the Deh Cho Bridge process has come to conclusion and that ferry system is planned to go out of service we will look at rearranging and relocating positions back to Fort Simpson.

Mr. Chairman, this work was planned for last year. Of course, we had weather and other issues that didn’t allow us to move forward. We would like to have that done this summer. The kilometres we are looking at are roughly 70 kilometres. It is in the area that has already been reconstructed. We want to put a cap on it to protect it.