Tom Beaulieu

I don’t know the various costs of the components broken down into the cost of gravel and so on. As far as the royalties go, yes, we are getting close to coming up with a price that we’re both happy with between ourselves as a government and the land claim organization who owns the land. Thank you.

Like I indicated, we think we do have a good estimate. As the Members know, the money that we are getting from the federal government is not going to be just money given to us without us having proper estimates and so on. So before the money from the federal government starts to flow into our coffers, we have to be able to demonstrate to the federal government that we know what we’re doing and what the cost of the road is going to be. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, as far as the loan goes and how the lender had pulled the loan from the…(inaudible)…is something that the department has looked at. At the time this had occurred, this decision was made; however, I don’t have the details of specifically what had occurred, what had occurred in the inner workings of the loan and so on. I am prepared to gather that information to start with. I can look at that information and determine if I do see that there was an issue wrong with it, then I will share it with Members across the floor. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, as the Member may be aware, the Auditor General has looked at the bridge, and the mid-project performance review was completed by the Auditor General. All of the recommendations that were put in by the Auditor General were carried out by the department. As I indicated, information I have at this time, all indications are that there is not an issue and that anything that we are picking up during the monitoring and the usability of the bridge and everything, if there are issues, the department is carrying out corrective measures. Right now we are thinking that an evaluation of what...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following document, entitled 2012 Public Service Annual Report, Government of the Northwest Territories.

Thank you. I would like to travel down Highway No. 7 with the Member, provided I drive. I’m afraid he will hit every pothole. Thank you.

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Thank you. As I indicated, the tender for shaping and placing of the scour rock, the tender is out. The bids are in and the tender is closed, but I don’t have the costs because I don’t have the evaluation of the tenders at this time. Thank you.

Thank you. That is part of the plan, plus I think there will be some more gravel put on some other parts of the highway, but chipsealing the balance of that is part of the plan.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m not sure of what deficiencies the Member is speaking of. I know there was some work being completed on the bridge and that work is underway. I think the majority of that work is completed at this time. Thank you.

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…who have passed away in the past month; although one was in June, I’ve waited.

Mr. Speaker, George Fabien was born July 15, 1926, and passed away at age 86 on June 23, 2013. The late George Fabien was born and raised in Fort Resolution from a large family. Today Elizabeth Beck of Yellowknife is the only living sibling in his family.

Elder Rosa Fabien was born February 23, 1921. She passed away at the age of 92 on October 10, 2013. The late Rosa was born Mariane Rosa Lafferty in Fort Rae, daughter to Jean Baptiste-Seehe Lafferty and...